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标题：Ritalin®: Panic in the USA
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作者：Toby Miller
期刊名称：Cultural Studies Review
电子版ISSN：1837-8692
出版年度：2008
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：103-12
语种：English
出版社：University of Technology, Sydney
摘要：Ritalin® is a popular pharmaceutical. It keeps young people quiet and focused, but attracts intense opprobrium. Beginning with an account of the dimensions of Ritalin®’s use in the United States and controversies surrounding it, this article outlines how this might be understood in moral-panic terms and examines the role of the psy-function and various conflicts of interest, coverage in popular culture, and governmental responses. In many cases, progressive academics and activists have criticised moral panics, recuperating moral-panic folk devils as semiotic guerrillas struggling against authority. In this instance, however, the scene is too complex and multifaceted for that heroisation. There are no good guys; there is lots of panic, from all political-economic quarters. Some of it is justified—and none of it is straightforward.
关键词：Ritalin®;moral panic;psy-function;ADHD