Diagnostic Controversy - Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare Paperback
Diagnostic Controversy - Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare Paperback This collection is dedicated to the diagnostic moment and its unrivaled influence on encompassment and…
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Diagnostic Controversy - Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare Paperback
This collection is dedicated to the diagnostic moment and its unrivaled influence on encompassment and exclusion in health care. Social scientific studies of medicalization and the production of medical knowledge have revealed tremendous controversy within, and factitiousness at the outer parameters of, diagnosable conditions. Diagnosis is seen as both an expression and a vehicle of biomedical hegemony, yet it is also a necessary and speculative tool for the identification of and response to suffering in any healing system.
This volume meets that challenge, directing attention to three distinctive realms of diagnostic conflict: in the role of diagnosis to grant access to care, in processes of Yet the ethnographically rich and theoretically complex history of such studies has not yet congealed into a coherent structural critique of the process and broader implications of diagnosis.