Identifying Hyperactive Children
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Identifying Hyperactive Children
The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior Expanded Edition
Conrad, Peter
Taylor & Francis Ltd
03/2006
184
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Inglês
9780754645184
15 a 20 dias
Highlights the issues at stake, outlining changes in our understanding of ADHD and reviewing sociological research. This book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive introduction to the concepts and issues involved.
Contents: Series Editor's Preface; Introduction to the expanded edition; Foreword to the original edition, Mark A. Stewart; Preface to the original edition; Introduction: sociology, illness, and deviant behavior; The discovery of Hyperkinesis; Methodology; The setting and the sample; Identifying behavior as deviant and defining deviance as a medical problem: audience reactions to children's behavior; The social construction of hyperactivity: uncertainty and medical diagnosis; The medicalization of deviant behavior; Toward a social system approach to hyperactivity: situational hyperactivity; Clinic outcomes, conclusions, and areas for further research; Epilogue: a theory of the medicalization of deviant behavior; Epilogue 2000: from hyperactive children to ADHD adults: observations on the expansion of medical categories, Peter Conrad and Deborah Potter; Appendices; References; Index.
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Highlights the issues at stake, outlining changes in our understanding of ADHD and reviewing sociological research. This book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive introduction to the concepts and issues involved.
Contents: Series Editor's Preface; Introduction to the expanded edition; Foreword to the original edition, Mark A. Stewart; Preface to the original edition; Introduction: sociology, illness, and deviant behavior; The discovery of Hyperkinesis; Methodology; The setting and the sample; Identifying behavior as deviant and defining deviance as a medical problem: audience reactions to children's behavior; The social construction of hyperactivity: uncertainty and medical diagnosis; The medicalization of deviant behavior; Toward a social system approach to hyperactivity: situational hyperactivity; Clinic outcomes, conclusions, and areas for further research; Epilogue: a theory of the medicalization of deviant behavior; Epilogue 2000: from hyperactive children to ADHD adults: observations on the expansion of medical categories, Peter Conrad and Deborah Potter; Appendices; References; Index.
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