Exploring ADHD: An ethnography of disorder in early childhood

by Simon Bailey

Book Overview

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric condition of childhood worldwide, yet the medical and psychological perspectives that dominate our understandings of ADHD present problems in their reductive understanding of the condition. Exploring ADHD incorporates Michel Foucault's notions of discourse and power into a critical ethnographic framework in order to analyse ADHD in terms of both the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415525829
• ISBN13: 9780415525824
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"