This book incorporates Michel Foucault's notions of discourse and power into a critical ethnographic framework in order to analyse ADHD in terms of the historical conditions that have shaped understandings of the disorder, as well as the social conditions which build individual diagnostic cases in today's schools and families.

Simon Bailey is Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.

1. Introducing ADHD 2. Time, Space, and Possibility 3. Children, Schools, and Families 4. Routine Conduct 5. Boys will be Boys 6. Invisible Parentwork 7. The Nurturing Formula 8. Another Order is Possible Appendices Notes Bibliography