Includes bibliographical references and index.

Establishing the research frame of reference; '"ruthing" adhd through psychiatric research -- Methodological plan what is an "apparatus"? how does an "apparatus" function? -- Foucauldian-inspired ethnographic "case study" -- Deindustrialisation, post-industrialisation and the changing requirements of the "young" citizen -- The material effects of the "post-industrial society": inequality and disadvantage -- Governing young people through 'additional support for learning'genealogical -- The "official" procedures of inclusion and additional support needs the "Wtches brew" of actual practice: division, normalisation and psychiatric knowledgeavoiding the inscription of "severity" as "rel" difference -- Fixing the adhd child: the clinical case file -- The problems it solved: deconstructing the legitimacy of the machine.

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