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Perpetuating a Reductionist Medical Worldview: The Absence of Environmental Medicine in the American ADHD Clinical Practice Guidelines

Manuel Vallée

Ecological Health: Society, Ecology and Health

ISBN: 978-1-78190-323-0

ISSN: 1057-6290

Publication date: 1 October 2013

Abstract

Research implications

Beyond the specific case of ADHD, this chapter has implications for understanding how and why environmental health research is omitted from other materials produced by mainstream medicine, such as materials found in the medical school curriculum, continuing medical education, medical journals, and on the medical association web sites.

Keywords

  • Clinical practice guidelines
  • ADHD
  • Dominant epidemiological perspectives
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Lead poisoning
  • Environmental medicine

Citation

Vallée, M. (2013), "Perpetuating a Reductionist Medical Worldview: The Absence of Environmental Medicine in the American ADHD Clinical Practice Guidelines", Ecological Health: Society, Ecology and Health (Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 241-264. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-6290(2013)0000015015

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