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Posts about Download The Book Free Download Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD [Kindle Edition] for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is one of the most common developmental disorders with an average of 9 per cent of children between the ages of five and seventeen diagnosed per year in the USA. It is also one of the most controversial. Since the 1950s, when hyperactivity in children was first diagnosed, psychiatrists, educators, parents and politicians have debated the causes, treatment and implications of the disorder.Hyperactive: A History of ADHD is the first history of the disorder. Matthew Smith highlights the limitations of regarding ADHD as simply neurological, and contends that hyperactive children are also a product of their social, cultural, political and educational environment. Instead of simply accepting conventional understandings of ADHD, this book addresses the questions central to the emergence of the disorder: Why were children first diagnosed with the disorder? Why did biological explanations become predominant? Why did powerful drugs become the preferred treatment? And why have alternative explanations failed to achieve legitimacy? By thinking through these issues Smith demonstrates how knowledge of the disorder’s history can be used to empower those affected to make better choices about diagnosis and treatment.As a historian with past experience of working with troubled children and youth, Matthew Smith offers a history that is not only rigorous, but also accessible and highly relevant to those working with and caring for those diagnosed with ADHD. A revealing and clear-headed study of a controversial and emotive subject, this is an essential book for psychologists, teachers, policy makers and, above all, parents.Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Free Download Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD [Kindle Edition]
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- Print Length: 253 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1780230311
- Publisher: Reaktion Books; 1 edition (October 3, 2012)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B009KOXM9S
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Matthew Smith, an historian, lecturer and Wellcome Trust research fellow at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, explains his motivation to write books such as this: " I am interested in the history of health and medicine in the twentieth century, particularly in the North American context. I am particularly drawn to controversies about medical knowledge and am keen to explore how historians can help inform such debates. These interests have led me to investigate the histories of psychiatry, allergy, food and nutrition, child health and environmental illness."
It has been said that those who don't read history are doomed to repeat it. This adage should be kept in mind while reading this book. If you are looking for answers for your specific loved one you will not find it unless you read between the lines and come to your own conclusions. ADHD, as we know it, did not become listed as a medical disorder until the middle of the last century. As Smith puts it, "I have argued that it is impossible to extricate hyperactivity from the historical period in which it emerged. Neither physicians, nor society in general, were particularly concerned about overactive, impulsive and distractible children prior to the late 1950." That, of course, didn't mean it didn't exist, but the demands of our changing culture may have made it more disturbing.
The definition of ADHD as of 2007 (according to the ADHD World Federation)
. . .is a highly heritable childhood-onset psychiatric condition which is characterized by age-inappropriate levels of the core symptoms inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity . . .
There are multiple etiological factors underlying this condition including genetic predisposition and brain structure abnormalities and neurotransmitter malfunction.
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