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Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been a common
psychiatric diagnosis in both children and adults since the 1980s
and 1990s in the United States. But the diagnosis was much less
common-even unknown-in other parts of the world. By the end of the
twentieth century, this was no longer the case, and ADHD diagnosis
and treatment became an increasingly widespread global phenomenon.
As the diagnosis was adopted around the world, the definition and
treatment of ADHD often changed in the context of different
psychiatric professions, medical systems, and cultures. Global
Perspectives on ADHD is the first book to examine how this
expanding public health concern is diagnosed and treated in 16
different countries. In some countries, readers learn, over 10% of
school-aged children and adolescents are diagnosed with ADHD; in
others, that figure is less than 1%. Some countries focus on
medicating children with ADHD; others emphasize parent intervention
or child therapy. Showing how a medical diagnosis varies across
contexts and time periods, this book explains how those
distinctions shape medical interventions and guidelines, filling a
much-needed gap by examining ADHD on an international scale.
Contributors: Madeleine Akrich, Mari J. Armstrong-Hough, Meredith
R. Bergey, Eugenia Bianchi, Christian Broer, Peter Conrad, Claire
Edwards, Silvia A. Faraone, Angela M. Filipe, Alessandra Frigerio,
Valeria Portugal Goncalves, Linda J. Graham, Hiroyuki Ito, Fabian
Karsch, Victor Kraak, Claudia Malacrida, Lorenzo Montali, Yasuo
Murayama, Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Orla O'Donovan, Francisco
Ortega, Monica Pena Ochoa, Brenton J. Prosser, Vololona
Rabeharisoa, Patricio Rojas, Tiffani Semach, Ilina Singh, Rachel
Spronk, Junko Teruyama, Masatsugu Tsujii, Fan-Tzu Tseng, Manuel
Vallee, Rafaela Zorzanelli
Global Mental Health and Neuroethics explores conceptual, ethical
and clinical issues that have emerged with the expansion of
clinical neuroscience into middle- and low-income countries.
Conceptual issues covered include avoiding scientism and skepticism
in global mental health, integrating evidence-based and value-based
global medicine, and developing a welfarist approach to the
practice of global psychiatry. Ethical issues addressed include
those raised by developments in neurogenetics, cosmetic
psychopharmacology and deep brain stimulation. Perspectives drawing
on global mental health and neuroethics are used to explore a
number of different clinical disorders and developmental stages,
ranging from childhood through to old age.
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