Alternative History of Hyperactivity - Food Additives and the Feingold Diet

Informationen zum Autor MATTHEW SMITH is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He received the American Association for the History of Medicine's Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award in 2010. Klappentext An Alternative History of Hyperactivity explores the origins of the Feingold diet, revealing why it became so popular, and the ways in which physicians, parents, and the public made decisions about whether it was a valid treatment for hyperactivity. Arguing that the fate of Feingold's therapy depended more on cultural, economic, and political factors than on the scientific protocols designed to test it, Smith suggests the lessons learned can help resolve medical controversies more effectively. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Food for Thought2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive3. Feingold Goes Public4. The Problem with Hyperactivity5. “Food Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”6. The Feingold Diet in the Media7. Testing the Feingold Diet8. Feingold Families9. ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Smith
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2011
• EAN: 9780813550169
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5016-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series; Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine