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61 Howlett, “Chicago Tot’s.”
62 Barry O‘Neill, “The History of a Hoax,” New York Times Magazine, 6 March 1994, p. 46.
63 O’Neill, “History of a Hoax”; Tamara Henry, “Textbooks Too Few, Too Old, Say Teachers,” USA Today, 29 February 1996, p. A1; “In His Own Words” (excepts from a speech by Ross Perot), New York Times, 14 September 1996, p. 8.
64 “Schools Are Relatively Safe, U.S. Study Says,” New York Times, 19 November 1995, p. 20; Mike Males, “Who’s Really Killing Our Schoolkids?” Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1998, pp. M1, 3.
65 Peter Applebome, “For the Ultimate Safe School, Official Eyes Turn to Dallas,” New York Times, 20 September 1995, pp. A1, B8; “Townview Troubles” (editorial), Dallas Morning News, 14 November 1995, p. A16. See also Terrence Stutz, “Security Expenses Surge in Urban Texas Schools,” Dallas Morning News, 30 September 1997, p. A1. For an example of another high-security school see CBS, “Sunday Morning,” 3 May 1998.
66 Natalie Angier, “The Debilitating Malady Called Boyhood,” New York Times, 24 July 1994, p. El (contains Konner quote). Statistics and contemporary approach: Susan Okie, “Hyperactivity Drugs Given to Very Young,” Washington Post, 2 July 1998, p. Z7; Thomas Armstrong, “ADD: Does It Really Exist?” Phi Delta Kappan77 (1996): 424-28; Charles Hurt, “Ritalin Prescription: For Teachers or Kids?” Denver Post, 23 April 1998, p. A19; Leslie Sowers, “The Mental Health of Children, Part II,” Houston Chronicle, 28 June 1998, p. 6. On medicalization see Peter Conrad and Joseph Schneider, Deviance and Medicalization (St Louis: Mosby, 1980). Research supporting medicalization: Alan J. Zametkin, “Attention-Deficit Disorder: Born to Be Hyperactive? Journal of the American Medical Asssociation 273 (1995): 1871—75;J. M. Swanson et al., “Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Hyperkinetic Disorder,” Lancet 351 (7 February 1998): 429-33. Examples of media accounts positive toward medicalized interpretation: Claudia Wallis, “Life in Overdrive,” Time, 18 July 1994; Larry Letich, “Attention! A.D.D. Not Just for Kids Anymore,” Utne Reader (September-October 1994): 46-49; Merrell Noden, “Dan O‘Brien,” Sports Illustrated, 27 June 1994, pp. 64-65.
67 Kenneth Gergen, “Psycho- versus Bio-Medical Therapy,” Society 35 (November 1997): 24-27. See also PBS, “The Merrow Report: A.D.D.: A Dubious Diagnosis?” November 1995.
68 Lawrence Diller, “The Run on Ritalin,” Hastings Center Report 26 (March 1996): 12-18.
69 Lois Weithorn, “Mental Hospitalization of Troublesome Youth,” Stanford Law Review 40 (1988): 773-838; Sandra Boodman, “Advertising for Psychiatric Hospitals,” Washington Post, 5 May 1992, p. A17; Lynette Lamb, “Kids in the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Utne Reader 50 (March—April 1992): 38, 40; Mary Keegan Eamon, “Institutionalizing Children and Adolescents in Private Psychiatric Hospitals,” Social Work 39 (1994): 588-94.
70 Joe Sharkey, Bedlam (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), p. 114.
71 Lamb, “Kids in the Cuckoo’s Nest”; Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin, TheWar Against Children (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994).
72 Weithorn, “Mental Hospitalization,” p. 786.
73 Sue Greer and Paul Greenbaum, “Fear-Based Advertising and the Increase in Psychiatric Hospitalization of Adolescents,” Hospital and Community Psychiatry 43 (1992): 1038-39.
74 Sharkey, Bedlam, chs. 5-6; Weithorn, “Mental Hospitalization,” pp. 796-97; Lamb, “Kids in the Cuckoo’s Nest.” See also Robert Friedman et al., “Psychiatric Hospitalization of Children and Adolescents,” testimony before the Florida State Senate, Tallahassee, 6 February 1990.
75 Greer and Greenbaum, “Fear-Based Advertising”; Mary Jane England, president of the American Psychiatric Association, interview with author, 31 May 1995.
76 Robert Friedman, “Admission of Minors to Psychiatric Hospitals and Residential Treatment Centers,” duplicated paper, Florida