Canaries in the coal mine: The symptoms of children labeled 'ADHD' as biocultural feedback

Critical New Perspectives on ADHD

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 34-44

  Armstrong, Thomas ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203008010     Document Type: Chapter

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