Raising generation Rx : mothering kids with invisible disabilities in an age of inequality /

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"While we read regularly about the Ritalin phenomenon and ADD kids, Linda Blum helps us to understand all of this from the perspective of mothers raising ADD-diagnosed children. Blum brings several unique lenses to this field of research: her critical medical sociology framework, attention to r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blum, Linda M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Mothers of children with disabilities > United States.
Parents of attention-deficit-disordered children > United States.
Parents of children with disabilities > United States.
Mother and child > United States.
Children with disabilities.
Mother and child.
Parent and child.
Disabled Children
Mother-Child Relations
Socioeconomic Factors
Parent-Child Relations
Mères d'enfants handicapés > États-Unis.
Parents d'enfants inattentifs > États-Unis.
Parents d'enfants handicapés > États-Unis.
Mère et enfant > États-Unis.
Enfants handicapés.
Mère et enfant.
Parents et enfants.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Parent and child
Children with disabilities
Mother and child
Mothers of children with disabilities
Parents of attention-deficit-disordered children
Parents of children with disabilities
Föräldrar till barn med funktionsnedsättning.
Barn med adhd.
Mor-barnrelationer.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Mother-Child Troubles, Past and Present
  • 2. "Welcome to Your Child's Brain": Mothers Managing Dense Bureaucracies, Medications, and Stigma
  • 3. "The Multimillion-Dollar Child": Raising Kids with Invisible Disabilities in the Context of Privilege
  • 4. "I Think I Have to Advocate Five Thousand Times Harder!": Single Mothers in the Age of Neuroscience
  • 5. En-gendering the Medicalized Child
  • 6. "A Strange Coincidence": Race-ing Disordered Children
  • 7. Mothers, Children, and Families in a Precarious Time.

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