Will the 'real boy' please behave: dosing dilemmas for parents of boys with ADHD.
The use of Ritalin and other stimulant drug treatments for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) raises distinctive moral dilemmas for parents; these moral dilemmas have not been adequately addressed in the bioethics literature. This paper draws upon data from a qualitative empirical study...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 34 - 48 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May/Jun2005
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