An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) - Hardcover

Buch 17 von 65: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Smith, Matthew

 
9780813550169: An Alternative History of Hyperactivity: Food Additives and the Feingold Diet (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813550165 ISBN 13: 9780813550169
Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In 1973, San Francisco allergist Ben Feingold created an uproar by claiming that synthetic food additives triggered hyperactivity, then the most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in the United States. He contended that the epidemic should not be treated with drugs such as Ritalin but, instead, with a food additive-free diet. Parents and the media considered his treatment, the Feingold diet, a compelling alternative. Physicians, however, were skeptical and designed dozens of trials to challenge the idea. The resulting medical opinion was that the diet did not work and it was rejected.

Matthew Smith asserts that those scientific conclusions were, in fact, flawed. 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.


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.

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Verlag
Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813550165
ISBN 13 
9780813550169
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1
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