Social Issues in Diagnosis

Annemarie Goldstein Jutel is an associate professor at Victoria University of Wellington and author of Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society, published by Johns Hopkins. Kevin Dew is a professor of sociology at Victoria University of Wellington.

• List of Medical AdvisorsList of Contributors AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Constructing Order: Classification and DiagnosisChapter 2. Diagnostic Work: A Disorderly ProcessChapter 3. None of the Above: Uncertainty and DiagnosisChapter 4. I Am Not a Doctor, but . . . : The Lay-Professional Relationship in DiagnosisChapter 5. When the Penny Drops: Diagnosis and the Transformative MomentChapter 6. Patient-Centered Care or Discrimination? Diagnosis among Diverse PopulationsChapter 7. Who's the Boss? Diagnosis and Medical AuthorityChapter 8. Is This Really a Disease? Medicalization and DiagnosisChapter 9. The Promotion of Marketing-Mediated Diagnosis: Turning Patients into ConsumersChapter 10. Let's Send That to the Lab: Technology and DiagnosisChapter 11. Fighting to be Heard: Contested DiagnosesChapter 12. Lay Diagnosis: An Oxymoron?Chapter 13. Researching the Social Aspects of Diagnosis: Answers for Clinical PracticeChapter 14. Diagnosis as Problem and SolutionChapter 15. When Diagnosis Goes Wrong: Connecting and Dissecting Diagnostic ErrorsConclusionGlossaryIndex

The broad scope of Social Issues in Diagnosis makes this book not only useful for premed or medical students but also undergraduate courses in medical anthropology or public health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly Very useful, relevant, and easily approached text on an important subject. -- Amanda Howe British Journal of General Practice The editors and contributors have offered a significant addition to the cultural competency discussion, whether for the student and classroom environment or for attendings thinking about their individual practice style and habits. This is a tremendous addition to every academic library. -- Vincent F. Carr Doody's Review Service This edited collection of works...further illuminates diagnosis, providing an insight into the workings of medicine and the difficulties and importance of diagnosis in contemporary health care... Social Issues in Diagnosis shows persuasively how diagnosis is a collaborative process of development that involves a range of stakeholders and healthcare professionals over a period of time...The editors and authors make a significant contribution to the emerging subfield of the sociology of diagnosis. -- Natalie Wotherspoon Sociology of Health and Illness Jutel and Dew's book, Social Issues in Diagnosis, demonstrates quite clearly the vital importance of informing practice with scholarship from academic disciplines... Given its accessibility, this book is likely to be a star in medical schools and other clinical training institutions as a part of any course where the object is to prepare neophytes for the human realities of practice... Student and trainees are not the only populations that will enjoy and benefit from this book. Any clinician who wants to think deeply and academically about the nature and context of their work will find much practical value inside its pages. -- C. Albert Bardi PsycCRITIQUES Range of perspectives gathered from different disciples and areas of the world that [provide] the reader with a balanced and global critique of diagnosis. -- Anna Olaitan Nursing Times