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Medicine Goes to School: Teachers as Sickness Brokers for ADHD

Christine Phillips

PLoS Medicine · 2006 · 113 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

Christine Phillips explores the roles of teachers as brokers for ADHD and its treatment, and the strategies used by the pharmaceutical industry to frame educators' responses to ADHD.

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