Title: Social issues in diagnosis : an introduction for students and clinicians /
Authors: Dew, Kevin,; Jutel, Annemarie,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Physician-Patient Relations; Culture; Diagnosis; Power, Psychological; Diagnosis Social aspects.
Abstract: "Diagnosis, the classification tool of medicine, serves an important social role. It confers social status on those who diagnose, and it impacts the social status of those diagnosed. Studying diagnosis from a sociological perspective offers clinicians and students a rich and sometimes provocative view of medicine and the cultures in which it is practiced. Social Issues in Diagnosis describes how diagnostic labels and the process of diagnosis are anchored in groups and structures as much as they are in the interactions between patient and doctor."--Back Cover.
Contents: Constructing order : classification and diagnosis / Dena T. Smith, Jennifer Hemler -- Diagnostic work : a disorderly process / Dawn Goodwin, Tom McConnell -- None of the above : uncertainty and diagnosis / Rebecca Olson, Sudeepa Abeysinghe -- I am not a doctor, but ... : the lay-professional relationship in diagnosis / Kevin Dew, Annemarie Goldstein Jutel -- When the penny drops : diagnosis and the transformative moment / Annemarie Goldstein Jutel -- Patient-centered care or discrimination? Diagnosis among diverse populations / Kevin Dew -- Who's the boss? Diagnosis and medical authority / Tania M. Jenkins -- Is this really a disease? Medicalization and diagnosis / Annemarie Goldstein Jutel, Andrew Greenberg, Barbara Katz Rothman -- Market-mediated diagnosis : turning patients into consumers / Mary Ebeling -- Let's send that to the lab : technology and diagnosis / John Gardner -- Fighting to be heard : contested diagnoses -- Lay diagnosis : an oxymoron? / Lindsay Prior -- Researching the social aspects of diagnosis : answers for clinical practice / Sandra H. Sulzer -- Diagnosis as problem and solution / Lisa Sanders -- When diagnosis goes wrong : connecting and dissecting diagnostic errors / Gordon Schiff.