"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
"<i>An Alternative History of Hyperactivity</i> 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."<br />
Social History of Medicine