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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreward
Preface
Introduction: What’s in a Name
A Place for a Sociology of Diagnosis?
An Avenue for Understanding
1 Lumping or Splitting: Classification in Medical Diagnosis
The Aims of Classification
Classification of Diseases
Classification Systems
Revealing Classificatory Politics in Diagnosis
2 Social Framing and Diagnosis: Corpulence and Fetal Death
Corpulence
Fetal Death
Frame and Be Framed
3 What’s Wrong with Me? Diagnosis and the Patient-Doctor Relationship
Illness and Disease
Medical Authority
Changing Roles in Diagnosis
What Next?
4 Beyond Our Ken? Contested Diagnoses and the Medically Unexplained
Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Discovery of Disease
Whose Diagnosis?
Splitting from Diagnosis?
5 Driving Diagnosis: Peddlers and Pushers
Engines of Diagnosis
Female Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Discussion
6 “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
Creation
Application
Allocation
Exploitation
Moving Forward
Notes
Reference
Index
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