MATTHEW SMITH is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He received the American Association for the History of Medicine's Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award in 2010.

"This exciting book makes a significant contribution to the history of hyperactivity by investigating the Feingold diet from many different vantage points and examining the historical context in which this treatment was situated." - Cynthia Connolly (author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life) "An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel dissection of a controversial medical treatment, illuminating many of the issues that characterised American medicine in the late twentieth century while simultaneously giving much-needed attention to the experience of patients and their families."(Social History of Medicine)

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Food for Thought2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive3. Feingold Goes Public4. The Problem with Hyperactivity5. “Food Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”6. The Feingold Diet in the Media7. Testing the Feingold Diet8. Feingold Families9. ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

MATTHEW SMITH is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He received the American Association for the History of Medicine's Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award in 2010.

"This exciting book makes a significant contribution to the history of hyperactivity by investigating the Feingold diet from many different vantage points and examining the historical context in which this treatment was situated." - Cynthia Connolly (author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life) "An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel dissection of a controversial medical treatment, illuminating many of the issues that characterised American medicine in the late twentieth century while simultaneously giving much-needed attention to the experience of patients and their families."(Social History of Medicine)

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Food for Thought2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive3. Feingold Goes Public4. The Problem with Hyperactivity5. “Food Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”6. The Feingold Diet in the Media7. Testing the Feingold Diet8. Feingold Families9. ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

MATTHEW SMITH is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He received the American Association for the History of Medicine's Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award in 2010.

"This exciting book makes a significant contribution to the history of hyperactivity by investigating the Feingold diet from many different vantage points and examining the historical context in which this treatment was situated." - Cynthia Connolly (author of Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life) "An Alternative History of Hyperactivity provides a novel dissection of a controversial medical treatment, illuminating many of the issues that characterised American medicine in the late twentieth century while simultaneously giving much-needed attention to the experience of patients and their families."(Social History of Medicine)

• AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. Food for Thought2. Why Your Child Is Hyperactive3. Feingold Goes Public4. The Problem with Hyperactivity5. “Food Just Isn’t What It Used to Be”6. The Feingold Diet in the Media7. Testing the Feingold Diet8. Feingold Families9. ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex