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In the course of the twentieth century, and especially for the last three decades, medical, pharmaceutical and psychological technologies and repertoires have come to play an increasingly central role in providing explanations and ways of addressing deviant child behavior, mainly but not exclusively through the category of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and its antecedents (Conrad 1976; Rafalovich 2001).
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Shachak, M., Díaz, E., Cohen, M., Illouz, E. (2013). Psychiatry as Culture: Transforming childhood through ADHD. In: Dellwing, M., Harbusch, M. (eds) Krankheitskonstruktionen und Krankheitstreiberei. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18784-6_4
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