
Cold Comfort
Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children''s diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these decisions within an overriding climate of mother-blame. Claudia Malacrida''s Cold Comfort provides a contextualized study of how mothers negotiate ...
Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children''s diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these decisions within an overriding climate of mother-blame. Claudia Malacrida''s Cold Comfort provides a contextualized study of how mothers negotiate ...