Overview
Over a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology of diagnosis, Putting a Name to It provides the first book-length, comprehensive framework for this emerging subdiscipline of medical sociology. Diagnosis is central to medicine. It creates social order, explains illness, identifies treatments, and predicts outcomes. Using concepts of medical sociology, Annemarie Goldstein Jutel sheds light on current knowledge about the components of diagnosis to outline how a sociology of diagnosis would function. She situates it within the broader discipline, lays out the directions it should explore, and discusses how the classification of illness and framing of diagnosis relate to social status and order. Jutel explains why this matters not just to doctor-patient relationships but also to the entire medical system. As a result, she argues, the sociological realm of diagnosis encompasses not only the ongoing controversy surrounding revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in psychiatry but also hot-button issues such as genetic screening and pharmaceutical industry disease mongering. Both a challenge and a call to arms, Putting a Name to It is a lucid, persuasive argument for formalizing, professionalizing, and advancing longstanding practice. Jutel's innovative, open approach and engaging arguments will find support among medical sociologists and practitioners and across much of the medical system.
Full Product Details
Author: Annemarie Jutel (Victoria University of Wellington) ,
Peter Conrad (Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences, Brandeis University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9781421400679
ISBN 10: 1421400677
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 11 July 2011
Recommended Age: From 17
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By: 9781421448923
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book's greatest achievement is its engaging style and clear location of scholarly analysis in a clinical context. Jutel never lets the reader forget why diagnosis matters, and she is skilled at making the invisible visible as she expores the myriad ways in which the mysterious process of classifying and naming illness informs the provision of healthcare. This is a book that will have a wide academic appeal. Times Higher Education 2011 A well-documented, carefully argued manuscript. Jutel's prose was easy to understand, and her book would be quite accessible to the interested lay reader. Metapsychology 2011 This thought-provoking book will help all health professionals to become more aware of their communications with patients and families. -- Greta McGough Nursing Standard 2011 This book's greatest achievement is its engaging style and clear location of scholarly analysis in a clinical context. -- Deborah Bowman Times Higher Education 2011 An important resource for health care professionals, especially those in the social sciences. Recommended. Choice 2011 The book is well written and [surprisingly] pleasurable to read. -- Lisa Sanders Nature Medicine 2012
This book's greatest achievement is its engaging style and clear location of scholarly analysis in a clinical context. Jutel never lets the reader forget why diagnosis matters, and she is skilled at making the invisible visible as she expores the myriad ways in which the mysterious process of classifying and naming illness informs the provision of healthcare. This is a book that will have a wide academic appeal. Times Higher Education 2011 A well-documented, carefully argued manuscript. Jutel's prose was easy to understand, and her book would be quite accessible to the interested lay reader. Metapsychology 2011 This thought-provoking book will help all health professionals to become more aware of their communications with patients and families. -- Greta McGough Nursing Standard 2011 This book's greatest achievement is its engaging style and clear location of scholarly analysis in a clinical context. -- Deborah Bowman Times Higher Education 2011 An important resource for health care professionals, especially those in the social sciences. Recommended. Choice 2011 The book is well written and surprisingly pleasurable to read. -- Lisa Sanders Nature Medicine 2012 With this engaging and fascinating text, Jutel has presented a challenge which medical sociology can, and should, take on board. -- Sally Brown Sociology of Health and Illness 2012
This book's greatest achievement is its engaging style and clear location of scholarly analysis in a clinical context. This is a book that will have a wide academic appeal. -- Deborah Bowman Times Higher Education 2011
This book's greatest achievement is its engaging style and clear location of scholarly analysis in a clinical context. Jutel never lets the reader forget why diagnosis matters, and she is skilled at making the invisible visible as she expores the myriad ways in which the mysterious process of classifying and naming illness informs the provision of healthcare. This is a book that will have a wide academic appeal. Times Higher Education 2011 A well-documented, carefully argued manuscript. Jutel's prose was easy to understand, and her book would be quite accessible to the interested lay reader. Metapsychology 2011
Author Information
Annemarie Goldstein Jutel is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
