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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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 51 筆
... Roles in Diagnosis 68 What Next? 73 4 Beyond Our Ken? Contested Diagnoses and the Medically Unexplained 76 Medically Unexplained Symptoms 80 Discovery of Disease 87 Whose Diagnosis? 93 Splitting from Diagnosis? 95 5 Driving Diagnosis ...
... role and whatever benefits can be derived; for some it can provide impetus for biographical change, because not only do individuals have a disease or disorder but their diagnosis may also become part of their identity, legitimizing ...
... role in the way I understand my life and understood my illness. Prediagnosis, I could neither explain, cure, nor palliate my physical ailments. The pursuit of the diagnosis was a pursuit of organization and explanation, one that ...
... role and that of my doctors. The diagnosis legitimized my illness, giving me access to laboratory tests and medicine. The doctor's ability to diagnose gave him power: authorized the allocation of resources, of sick leave, and of the ...
... role of classification in understanding the social context and implications of diagnosis. The classifications into which doctors and lay people slot their explanations of illness determine much about the disease yet reveal little about ...
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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 |