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Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to the sociology of diagnosis. This title presents articles that explore diagnosis as a process of definition that includes: labeling dynamics between diagnoser and diagnosed; boundary struggles between diverse constituents - both among medical practitioners and between medical authorities and others; and, more.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Preface. Introduction: Looking within from without. Sociology of Diagnosis: A Preliminary Review. Diagnosis and Medicalization. Defining Social Illness in a Diagnostic World: Trauma and the Cultural Logic of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Resisting American Psychiatry: French Opposition to DSM-III, Biological Reductionism, and the Pharmaceutical Ethos. Labeling, Looping, and Social Control: Contextualizing Diagnosis in Mental Health Care. From Talk to Action: Mapping the Diagnostic Process in Psychiatry. “DSD is a Perfectly Fine Term”: Reasserting Medical Authority through a Shift in Intersex Terminology. Resisting Pathology: GID and the Contested Terrain of Diagnosis in the Transgender Rights Movement. Navigating Professional Knowledges: Lay Techniques for the Management of Conflictual Diagnosis in an AD/HD Support Group. The Vanishing Diagnosis of Asperger's Disorder. Hidden Diagnosis: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from a Child's Perspective. Sick but Legitimate? Gender Identity Disorder and a New Gender Identity Category in Japan. Diagnosing the Criminal Addict: Biochemistry in the Service of the State. Troubling Diagnoses. Sociology of Diagnosis. Advances in medical sociology. Advances in medical sociology. Copyright page.
