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Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2009 34(2):155-180; doi:10.1093/jmp/jhp013
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Children, ADHD, and Citizenship

Elizabeth F. Cohen

Department of Political Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA

Christopher P. Morley

Department of Family Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA

Address correspondence to: Christopher P. Morley, MA, CAS, Department of Family Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, MIMC Suite 200, Syracuse, NY 13210. E-mail: MorleyCP{at}upstate.edu


  Abstract

The diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is a subject of controversy, for a host of reasons. This paper seeks to explore the manner in which children's interests may be subsumed to those of parents, teachers, and society as a whole in the course of diagnosis, treatment, and labeling, utilizing a framework for children's citizenship proposed by Elizabeth Cohen. Additionally, the paper explores aspects of discipline associated with the diagnosis, as well as distributional pathologies resulting from the application of the diagnosis in potentially biased ways.

Keywords: ADHD, mental health, political theory


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