Re: History of ADD

2000-05-04 Thread Jeff Ricker
Louis_Schmier wrote: > So, Jeff are you saying that there are cultural influences at work that > influence our understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of ADD that operate > on all involve? No, I'm saying this (i.e., I wrote): >The most recent issue of _The Journal of the History of the Behavior

Re: History of ADD

2000-05-04 Thread Louis_Schmier
So, Jeff are you saying that there are cultural influences at work that influence our understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of ADD that operate on all involve? If so, then that certainly brings to home that people, lay and professional, are not as detached and subjective as many would like to t

History of ADD

2000-05-04 Thread Jeff Ricker
The most recent issue of _The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 36, No. 2, Spring 2000) has an article by Andrew Lakoff entitled "Adaptive will: The evolution of attention deficit disorder." The abstract: "The increasing prevalence of attention-deficit disorder among America