Diagnosis as cultural practice
By: edited by Judith Felson Duchan, Dana Kovarsky.
Contributors: Duchan, Judith F.; Kovarsky, Dana.
Series: Language, power and social process ;; 16
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Diagnosis.; Diagnosis -- Cross-cultural studies.; Diagnosis.; Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diagnosis as an aid and a curse in dealing with others / Mary L. Foster-Galasso; title: A diagnosed life in an institutional setting: can the dancer walk? / Barbara Bokhour; title: From diagnostic to aesthetic : moving beyond diagnosis / Ozum Ucok; title: Revisiting authority in physician-patient interaction / John Heritage; title: "I just wanna know why" : patients' attempts and physicians' responses to premature solicitation of diagnostic information / Charlotte Jones and Wayne Beach; title: Aggravated resistance to problem formulations in therapy / G.H. Morris; title: Learning to diagnose : production of diagnostic hypotheses in problem-based learning tutorials / Philip Glenn and Timothy Koschmann; title: Emotion and objectivity in medical diagnosis / Dana Kovarsky, Linda Snelling, and Elayne Meyer; title: The diagnostic practices of speech-language pathologists in America over the last century / Judith Felson Duchan; title: The diagnosis of deafness in Nicaragua / Laura Polich; title: Documenting awareness of the cultural process of diagnosis: letters of recommendation for medical school faculty / Frances Trix; title: Speaking about menopause : diagnosis and cultural discourse / Cindy Suopis and Donal Carbaugh; title: The diagnosis of the constituents of communication in everyday discourse : some functions, enabling conditions, consequences, and remedies / Christian Nelson.