Putting a name to it [electronic resource] : diagnosis in contemporary society / Annemarie Goldstein Jutel ; foreword by Peter Conrad.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 175 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421401072
- 142140107X
- 362.1 22
- RA418 .J88 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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