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Putting a name to it : diagnosis in contemporary society / Annemarie Goldstein Jutel.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Edition: Second editionDescription: 202 pages 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421448923
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1 23/eng/20231219
LOC classification:
  • RA418
NLM classification:
  • WB 141
Contents:
Introduction: what's in a name? -- Lumping or splitting: Classification in medical diagnosis -- Social framing and diagnosis: Corpulence and fetal death -- What's wrong with me? Diagnosis and the patient-doctor relationship -- Contested diagnoses and the medically unexplained -- Engines of diagnosis -- Technologies of diagnosis -- COVID-19 as a sociological phenomenon -- Conclusion: directions for the sociology of diagnosis.
Summary: Over a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis, this book 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: what's in a name? -- Lumping or splitting: Classification in medical diagnosis -- Social framing and diagnosis: Corpulence and fetal death -- What's wrong with me? Diagnosis and the patient-doctor relationship -- Contested diagnoses and the medically unexplained -- Engines of diagnosis -- Technologies of diagnosis -- COVID-19 as a sociological phenomenon -- Conclusion: directions for the sociology of diagnosis.

Over a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis, this book 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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