Social Issues in Diagnosis
Subtitle: An Introduction for Students and Clinicians
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781421413006
Subjects: Diagnosis; Culture; Physician and patient; Control (psychology)
Description: "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.