Putting a Name to It

Download or read book Putting a Name to It written by Annemarie Jutel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Back cover.