Sociology of diagnosis

This is the only book to provide a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of diagnosis through original theoretical and empirical work by established and emerging scholars and, as such, it is poised to become a touchstone volume. Sixteen articles are presented across four sections. 'Power...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: McGann, P. J., Hutson, David J., Rothman, Barbara Katz
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2011.
Σειρά:Advances in medical sociology ; v. 12.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Sociology of diagnosis : a preliminary review / Annemarie Jutel
  • Diagnosis and medicalization / Karl Bryant
  • Defining social illness in a diagnostic world : trauma and the cultural logic of posttraumatic stress disorder / Thomas DeGloma
  • Resisting American psychiatry : French opposition to DSM-III, biological reductionism, and the pharmaceutical ethos / Manuel Vallée
  • Labeling, looping, and social control : contextualizing diagnosis in mental health care / Kerry Dobransky
  • From talk to action : mapping the diagnostic process in psychiatry / Rebecca Godderis
  • 'DSD is a perfectly fine term' : reasserting medical authority through a shift in intersex terminology / Georgiann Davis
  • Resisting pathology : GID and the contested terrain of diagnosis in the transgender rights movement / Mary C. Burke
  • Navigating professional knowledges : lay techniques for the management of conflictual diagnosis in an AD/HD support group / Paul C. Fuller
  • The vanishing diagnosis of Asperger's disorder / Jennifer S. Singh
  • Hidden diagnosis : attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from a child's perspective / Elizabeth H. Bringewatt
  • Sick but legitimate? : gender identity disorder and a new gender identity category in Japan / Satoko Itani
  • Diagnosing the criminal addict : biochemistry in the service of the state / Sarah Whetstone, Teresa Gowan
  • Troubling diagnoses / PJ McGann.