Students often considered their unmedicated bodily states to be normal and natural
Students often considered their unmedicated bodily states to be “normal” and natural, yet believed they needed medicine to perform academically because of their disorder. How did students negotiate this “paradox of medical control”?
Students may perceive that pharmaceutical enhancement is necessary in the context of competitive academic ethic.Students practice what we call concerted medication in an attempt to literally embody the academic ideal.However while medicine may enable students to manage academic performances and take control of disordered bodies may remain uneasy about the fact to which they feel controlled by a drug. In the context of medicine ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) students engage in reflexive identity management and strategic pharmaceutical use to achieve some piece of self control and self preservation during their college years.As the college education ends many prepare to return to their authentic non-medicated selves as they enter a work world.
My question to the class is that if we treated our kids like they did not have a disorder could that treat it without medicine?
References
Ledford, C. J. W., Seehusen, D. A., Chessman, A. W., & Shokar, N. K. (2015). How We Teach US Medical Students to Negotiate Uncertainty in Clinical: A CERA Study. Family Medicine, 47(1), 31.
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