This article examines pharmacological microcontroversies (PMC) surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Chile, based on a comparative, multisited ethnography in four educational contexts with differing socioeconomic and territorial profiles. Drawing on science and technology studies, microcontroversies studies, and Norbert Elias’s sociology of interdependence, the study conceptualizes ADHD as a situational configuration in which diagnosis and treatment emerge from…
