Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary SocietyJHU Press, 2011年5月16日 - 200 頁 Finalist, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, British Sociological Association Over a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis, Putting a Name to It provides the first book-length, comprehensive framework for this emerging subdiscipline of medical sociology. Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates social order, explains illness, identifies treatments, and predicts outcomes. Using concepts of medical sociology, Annemarie Goldstein Jutel sheds light on current knowledge about the components of diagnosis to outline how a sociology of diagnosis would function. She situates it within the broader discipline, lays out the directions it should explore, and discusses how the classification of illness and framing of diagnosis relate to social status and order. Jutel explains why this matters not just to doctor-patient relationships but also to the entire medical system. As a result, she argues, the sociological realm of diagnosis encompasses not only the ongoing controversy surrounding revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in psychiatry but also hot-button issues such as genetic screening and pharmaceutical industry disease mongering. Both a challenge and a call to arms, Putting a Name to It is a lucid, persuasive argument for formalizing, professionalizing, and advancing longstanding practice. Jutel’s innovative, open approach and engaging arguments will find support among medical sociologists and practitioners and across much of the medical system. |
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... tools enable medicine to identify previously silent risk factors and other latent processes. Technology enables “surrogate markers” (such as laboratory results) to act as a proxy for clinical events. It also opens the way for the ...
... tools. They segment and organize the vast continuum of human conditions. Diagnosis validates what counts as disease and what doesn't, prioritizing some conditions over others and always exerting an important material force (Bowker and ...
... tools by which an individual doctor might assign a particular disease label. It would also offer a means by which the profession could consolidate itself. Classification provided—among other things—the language for discussing matters of ...
... tool by which the discipline was able to assert its authority at a time when many other professions were encroaching on psychiatry's domain. I discuss this in greater depth in the pages to come. Diagnoses and their classificatory ...
... tool for political engagement. Diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, blacklung, and environmental disease offer a social view for victims of abuse or toxic exposure, opening the door to care and to compensation. Collective ...
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Corpulence and Fetal Death | 39 |
3 Whats Wrong with Me? Diagnosis and the PatientDoctor Relationship | 62 |
4 Beyond Our Ken? Contested Diagnoses and the Medically Unexplained | 76 |
Peddlers and Pushers | 97 |
Technologies of Diagnosis | 117 |
Directions for the Sociology of Diagnosis | 136 |
Notes | 147 |
References | 149 |
Index | 171 |