Standard ADHD diagnosis individualizes what is actually a systemic condition

Evidence

The practical consequences of this kind of methodological individualism pose a number of problems, however, as exemplified by the way in which society tends to diagnose and treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Even if the best textbooks on this disease go to the trouble in the foreword of situating it in the context of an ‘acceleration in communications’, of a ‘technological revolution’ or generalized ‘channel hopping’, they very quickly arrive at a diagnosis that is strictly limited to the interaction between a subjectchild and the objects encountered in their environment. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the social-construction-of-illness literature and connects to the Frankfurt concern with administered society. — connects to: Individualized ADHD treatment substitutes medication for systemic reform — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 66; Attention deficit disorders partly reflect unhealthy attention environments — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 258; Today’s digital attention anxieties were anticipated by late-twentieth-century ADHD medicalization debates — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 23

Broader Connections

• Attention deficit disorders partly reflect unhealthy attention environments #corroborates (0.88) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 258
• Today’s digital attention anxieties were anticipated by late-twentieth-century ADHD medicalization debates #expands (0.80) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 23