Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in France and Ireland: parents' groups' scientific and political framing of an unsettled condition

Claire Edwards, Etaoine Howlett, Madeleine Akrich and Vololona Rabeharisoa
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Claire Edwards: School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork
Etaoine Howlett: School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork
Madeleine Akrich: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech
Vololona Rabeharisoa: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech

No 24, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

Abstract: Examines how groups representing children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in France and Ireland engage within this contested medical domain, and challenges the frequently made association between the process of medicalisation and de-politicisation.

Keywords: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); parents’ groups; France; Ireland; evidence-based medecine; medicalisation; politicisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2012-05
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