Identifying Hyperactive Children: The Medicalization of Deviant Behavior.

Abstract

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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