Diagnosis

Annemarie Goldstein Jutel is Professor of Health at Victoria University of Wellington.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Giving the Story Back – by Lisa SandersAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Touch of the Flu:The Paradoxes and Contradictions of DiagnosesWhose Stories?Narrative Exchange and Self-Diagnosis"The Expertness of His Healer":Diagnosis, Disclosure, and the Power of a Profession"The News Is Not Altogether Comforting": Fiction and the Diagnostic MomentBreaking Bad:The Diagnostic Moment in Film and Television – with Thierry JutelA Picture Paints a Thousand Words:The Graphic Diagnosis – with Ian WilliamsThe Intellectual Documentary:Methods for Understanding the Diagnostic MomentWhat’s There to Tell? Diagnosis-as-MysteryNotesReferencesIndex

"Diagnosis: Truth and Tales provokes thought rather than simple assent. It offers a set of ideas that enable its readers’ various responses rather than prescribing an inevitable conclusion."- Jeffrey Brown, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (Medical Humanities)