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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100754645185
ISBN-139780754645184
eBay Product ID (ePID)48419846
Product Key Features
Number of Pages184 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameIdentifying Hyperactive Children : the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior
SubjectAttention Deficit Disorder (Add-Adhd), Sociology / General, Psychopathology / Attention-Deficit Disorder (Add-Adhd)
Publication Year2006
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter Conrad
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Psychology
SeriesAshgate Classics in Sociology Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2005-929786
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal618.928589
Table Of ContentContents: 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.
SynopsisThis is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD. In this revised edition, Peter Conrad sets the original study in context, demonstrating the continuing relevance of his research. He highlights the issues at stake, outlining recent changes in our understanding of ADHD and reviewing recent sociological research., This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. In this revised edition, Peter Conrad sets the original study in context, demonstrating the continuing relevance of his research. He highlights the issues at stake, outlining recent changes in our understanding of ADHD and reviewing recent sociological research. Peter Conrad is Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences at Brandeis University, USA. He has written extensively in the area of medical sociology, publishing nine books and over eighty articles and chapters., This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD, originally published in 1976. The book centres on an empirical study of the process of identifying hyperactive children, providing a perceptive and accessible introduction to the concepts and issues involved. In this revised edition, Peter Conrad sets the original study in context, demonstrating the continuing relevance of his research. He highlights the issues at stake, outlining recent changes in our understanding of ADHD and reviewing recent sociological research. In addition to a substantial new introduction, the revised edition includes an entirely new final chapter tracing the shift from hyperactivity to ADHD, and the changing prognosis to ADHD as a lifelong disorder. Identifying Hyperactive Children remains the only sociological book on ADHD, and will be of interest to medical sociologists and psychologists as well as health professionals.
LC Classification NumberRJ506.H9
