Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 345 g
Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 345 g
Reihe: Ashgate Classics in Sociology
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4518-4
Verlag: Routledge
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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.