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Topic: Rhetoric of Biotechnology
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Guelda Voien  109
12-08-2002 05:44 PM ET (US)
To the person who is investigating the use of ritalin and prozac for curing 'deficiencies' such as ADD and depression-very interesting and cool topic choice. At least with ADD I think looking at the ways in which presons with ADD in some cases and in some arenas of life function better than so-called normal individuals would be interesting. You know there are some studies out there about ADD being directly correlated with creativity and intelligence, and these maintain that it is just that socially these individuals do not fit in well and so their accomplishments are often marginalized as they are. Also I am sure you will talk about the manner of diagnosis and when something becomes a pathology instead of an idiosyncrecy. A book that might be helpful for you in this area is 'Shadow Syndromes.' I don't remember the author but it is a very interesting book about the predilections of people whom the author believes have very slight ADD, anxiety disorder, etc. and their predilections and how they make their lives work. It even has a chapter on 'shadow' autism, that is extremely cool but may not be relevant to your topic. But some of these studies about improved abilities of the 'disabled' in certain areas are cited in there. But anyway- Good luck with this topic, maybe I can read your paper!
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