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Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Food for Thought
2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive
3. Feingold Goes Public
4. The Problem with Hyperactivity
5. “Food Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”
6. The Feingold Diet in the Media
7. Testing the Feingold Diet
8. Feingold Families
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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.
"This exciting book makes a significant contribution to the history
of hyperactivity by investigating the Feingold diet from many
different vantage points and examining the historical context in
which this treatment was situated."
*author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in
American Life*
"An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel
dissection of a controversial medical treatment, illuminating many
of the issues that characterised American medicine in the late
twentieth century while simultaneously giving much-needed attention
to the experience of patients and their families."
*Social History of Medicine*
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