{"product_id":"sociology-of-diagnosis-advances-in-medical-sociology-12-9780857245755","title":"Sociology of Diagnosis Advances in Medical","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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.","brand":"Emerald Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406288658775,"sku":"9780857245755","price":118.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sociology-of-diagnosis-advances-in-medical-sociology-12-9780857245755","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}