Raising generation Rx : mothering kids with invisible disabilities in an age of inequality / Linda M. Blum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed May 1, 2015).

1. Mother-Child Troubles, Past and Present -- 2. "Welcome to Your Child's Brain": Mothers Managing Dense Bureaucracies, Medications, and Stigma -- 3. "The Multimillion-Dollar Child": Raising Kids with Invisible Disabilities in the Context of Privilege -- 4. "I Think I Have to Advocate Five Thousand Times Harder!": Single Mothers in the Age of Neuroscience -- 5. En-gendering the Medicalized Child -- 6. "A Strange Coincidence": Race-ing Disordered Children -- 7. Mothers, Children, and Families in a Precarious Time.

"While we read regularly about the Ritalin phenomenon and ADD kids, Linda Blum helps us to understand all of this from the perspective of mothers raising ADD-diagnosed children. Blum brings several unique lenses to this field of research: her critical medical sociology framework, attention to race, class and gender, and an in-depth interview approach, which gets at the "complex ambivalences" mothers (particularly those raising children of color) hold in relation to medicating and diagnosing their kids, and negotiating our contemporary risk culture. The result is the complex, multi-dimensional analysis that we need to balance out an increasingly hegemonic neuroscience perspective."--Provided by publisher.

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