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Putting a name to it :

by Jutel, Annemarie.
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press, (Baltimore :) Physical details: xvii, 175 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:9781421400679 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1421400677 (hardcover : alk. paper).
Subject(s): Social medicine. | Diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Year: 2011 List(s) this item appears in: KUK-04/15
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General Collection General Collection Kukum Library
General Stacks 		K 362.1 JUT (Browse shelf) Available 50859

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A place for a sociology of diagnosis? -- An avenue for understanding -- Lumping or splitting: classification in medical diagnosis -- The aims of classification -- Classification of diseases -- Classification systems -- Revealing classificatory politics in diagnosis -- Social framing and diagnosis: corpulence and fetal death -- Corpulence -- Fetal death -- Frame and be framed -- What's wrong with me? diagnosis and the patient-doctor relationship -- Illness and disease -- Medical authority -- Changing roles in diagnosis -- What next? -- Beyond our ken? contested diagnoses and the medically unexplained -- Medically unexplained symptoms -- Discovery of disease -- Whose diagnosis? -- Splitting from diagnosis -- Driving diagnosis: peddlers and pushers -- Engines of diagnosis -- Female hypoactive sexual desire disorder -- Discussion -- "There is nothing so small as to escape our inquiry": technologies of diagnosis -- Technology and diagnostic categories -- Technology and the diagnostic process -- Screening -- Hope -- Conclusion: directions for the sociology of diagnosis.

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