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Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit Disorder - Couverture rigide

Malacrida, Claudia

 
9780802087522: Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit Disorder
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0802087523 ISBN 13 : 9780802087522
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2003

Synopsis

Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children's diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these decisions within an overriding climate of mother-blame. Claudia Malacrida's Cold Comfort provides a contextualized study of how mothers negotiate with/against the 'helping professions' over assessment and treatment for their AD(H)D children.

Malacrida counters current conceptions about mothers of AD(H)D children (namely that mothers irresponsibly push for Ritalin to manage their children's behaviour) as well as professional assumptions of maternal pathology. This thought-provoking examination documents Malacrida's extensive interviews with mothers of affected children in both Canada and the United Kingdom, and details the way in which these women speak of their experiences. Malacrida compares their narratives to national discourses and practices, placing the complex mother-child and mother-professional relations at the centre of her critical inquiry.

Drawing on both poststructural discourse analysis and feminist standpoint theory, Malacrida makes a critical contribution to qualitative methodologies by developing a feminist discursive ethnography of the construction of AD(H)D in two divergent cultures. On a more personal level, she offers readers a moving, nuanced, and satisfying examination of real women and children facing both public and private challenges linked to AD(H)D.

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À propos de l'auteur

Claudia Malacrida is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802087523
ISBN 13 
9780802087522
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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Personne responsable
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