Bipolar children : cutting-edge controversy, insights, and research / edited by Sharna Olfman.

Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.

viii, 164 pages ; 25 cm.

Bipolar children: cutting edge controversy / Sharna Olfman -- Bipolar syndrome by proxy?: the case of pediatric bipolar disorder / David Healy and Joanna Le Noury -- But don't call it science / Lawrence Diller -- Creating the bipolar child: how our drug-based paradigm of care is fueling an epidemic of disabling mental illness in children / Robert Whitaker -- Childhood bipolar epidemic: brat or bipolar? / Elizabeth J. Roberts -- Disrupted care and disruptive moods: pediatric bipolar disorder in foster-care children / Toni Vaughn Heineman -- Pediatric bipolar disorder and the destruction of lived experience: a case study / William J. Purcell -- Invisible plague: pediatric bipolar disorder and the chemical colonization of childhood / Daniel Burston -- Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals and pediatric bipolar: a call to research / Philip J. Landrigan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-156) and index.