Putting a name to it
Subtitle: diagnosis in contemporary society
By: Annemarie Goldstein Jutel ; foreword by Peter Conrad
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781421400679
Subjects: Social aspects; Social medicine; Diagnosis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A place for a sociology of diagnosis?; title: An avenue for understanding; title: Lumping or splitting: classification in medical diagnosis; title: The aims of classification; title: Classification of diseases; title: Classification systems; title: Revealing classificatory politics in diagnosis; title: Social framing and diagnosis: corpulence and fetal death; title: Corpulence; title: Fetal death; title: Frame and be framed; title: What's wrong with me? diagnosis and the patient-doctor relationship; title: Illness and disease; title: Medical authority; title: Changing roles in diagnosis; title: What next?; title: Beyond our ken? contested diagnoses and the medically unexplained; title: Medically unexplained symptoms; title: Discovery of disease; title: Whose diagnosis?; title: Splitting from diagnosis; title: Driving diagnosis: peddlers and pushers; title: Engines of diagnosis; title: Female hypoactive sexual desire disorder; title: Discussion; title: "There is nothing so small as to escape our inquiry": technologies of diagnosis; title: Technology and diagnostic categories; title: Technology and the diagnostic process; title: Screening; title: Hope; title: Conclusion: directions for the sociology of diagnosis.