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"This exciting book makes a significant contribution to the history of hyperactivity by investigating the Feingold diet from many different vantage points and examining the historical context in which this treatment was situated." -- Cynthia Connolly * author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life *
"An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel dissection of a controversial medical treatment, illuminating many of the issues that characterised American medicine in the late twentieth century while simultaneously giving much-needed attention to the experience of patients and their families."
* Social History of Medicine *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

1. Food for Thought
2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive
3. Feingold Goes Public
4. The Problem with Hyperactivity
5. “Food Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”
6. The Feingold Diet in the Media
7. Testing the Feingold Diet
8. Feingold Families
9. Conclusion

Bibliography
Notes
Index

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      Publisher MW - Rutgers University Press
      Published 6/29/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780813550169
      978-0813550169
      ISBN-10 0813550165
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      Dietetics and nutrition History of medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "This exciting book makes a significant contribution to the history of hyperactivity by investigating the Feingold diet from many different vantage points and examining the historical context in which this treatment was situated." -- Cynthia Connolly * author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life *
      "An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel dissection of a controversial medical treatment, illuminating many of the issues that characterised American medicine in the late twentieth century while simultaneously giving much-needed attention to the experience of patients and their families."
      * Social History of Medicine *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      List of Abbreviations

      1. Food for Thought
      2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive
      3. Feingold Goes Public
      4. The Problem with Hyperactivity
      5. “Food Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”
      6. The Feingold Diet in the Media
      7. Testing the Feingold Diet
      8. Feingold Families
      9. Conclusion

      Bibliography
      Notes
      Index

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