Pharmacological subjectifications: Attention deficit disorder, psychostimulants and school practices in two schools in Santiago, Chile

Navarro, Sebastián Rojas; Rojas, Patricio

doi:10.5565/rev/athenea.2465

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“…We are not attempting to solve these polemics, but to move beyond them. Our interest lies not in joining the debates about the true nature of this condition, but in understanding what the diagnosis produces (Rojas Navarro & Rojas, 2019), and in revealing the rationalities traversed by clinicians to opt for diagnosing a child with ADHD. As we discuss in this section, clinicians’ narratives show how diagnosing can be considered as an ambivalent way of caring.…”

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Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools

Navarro

Alarcón-Arcos

Tabilo‐Prieto

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article draws upon findings from fieldwork conducted with Chilean mental health practitioners and school staff to explore how children's mental health diagnoses can be used in the school setting as a particular rationale to mobilise and convey new forms of care practices (Mol, The logic of care: Health and the problem of patient choice, 2008). Inspired by the framing of care as an interrelational, interdependent and more-thanhuman affair promoted by Science and Technology Studies, and drawing from conceptual tools offered by post-humanist approaches, we focus our examination on the diagnosis of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Following the diagnosis since its formulation by clinicians in the public sector to its enactment in an urban school in Santiago, Chile, we explore how certain caring/uncaring practices are enacted in relation to the diagnosis, reconfiguring the classroom by incorporating (non)human actors to care for the diagnosed child. However, care is ambivalent, and the diagnosis can be put into action for other purposes as it interweaves with educational policies and other agendas. Thus, to produce policies that truly foster inclusion, attention must be given to the micropolitical level where disabilities and disorders are enacted, developing

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Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools

Navarro

Alarcón-Arcos

Tabilo‐Prieto

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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Re-entangling Childhoods: Post-essentialist Approaches to Children’s Everyday Lives

Rojas-Navarro

Rojas

2021

New Waves in Social Psychology

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Pharmacological subjectifications: Attention deficit disorder, psychostimulants and school practices in two schools in Santiago, Chile

Cited by 2 publications

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Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools

Care entanglements: Upholding difference through the uses of mental health diagnosis in Chilean schools

Re-entangling Childhoods: Post-essentialist Approaches to Children’s Everyday Lives

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