Putting a name to it : diagnosis in contemporary society /
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.