Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15262

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Publication type: chapter

Leo J, Lacasse JR.
Consumer advertisements of medications for ADHD
Tamimi S, Leo J. Rethinking ADD: From Brain To Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2009
http://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-ADHD-Culture-Sami-Timimi/dp/0230507123

Abstract:

In the past decade, there have been an increasing number of authors who have written about ADHD from a critical perspective. These critiques have ranged from questioning the existence of the disorder and the way it is currently conceptualized in mainstream medicine to the safety and efficacy of popular drug treatment regimes for ADHD. However, each of these critical authors have focused on their own particular area of interest, be this culture, genetics, the influence of drug company marketing, the effects of medication, particular treatment regimes, and so on. This book brings together a variety of critical perspectives, with each contribution dealing with a particular issue from culture to genetics and drug companies to nutrition.