Putting a name to it : diagnosis in contemporary society

Annemarie Jutel (Författare)

LCCN 2010042464, ISBN 9781421415741 · paperback

1st Johns Hopkins paperback ed.

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

xvii, 175 pages

Annemarie Goldstein Jutel ; foreword by Peter Conrad

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Socialmedicin, Diagnostiska metoder--social aspekter, Medicinsk sociologi, Social medicine., Diagnosis--Social aspects., Diagnosis., Social Conditions., Sociology, Medical.

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Introduction: what's in a name? -- A place for a sociology of diagnosis? -- An avenue for understanding -- Lumping or splitting: classification in medical diagnosis -- The aims of classification -- Classification of diseases -- Classification systems -- Revealing classificatory politics in diagnosis -- Social framing and diagnosis: corpulence and fetal death -- Corpulence -- Fetal death -- Frame and be framed -- What's wrong with me? diagnosis and the patient-doctor relationship -- Illness and disease -- Medical authority -- Changing roles in diagnosis -- What next? -- Beyond our ken? contested diagnoses and the medically unexplained -- Medically unexplained symptoms -- Discovery of disease -- Whose diagnosis? -- Splitting from diagnosis -- Driving diagnosis: peddlers and pushers -- Engines of diagnosis -- Female hypoactive sexual desire disorder -- Discussion -- "There is nothing so small as to escape our inquiry": technologies of diagnosis -- Technology and diagnostic categories -- Technology and the diagnostic process -- Screening -- Hope -- Conclusion: directions for the sociology of diagnosis.