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Diagnostic Controversy - Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare (Paperback)
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Diagnostic Controversy - Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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This collection is dedicated to the diagnostic moment and its
unrivaled influence on encompassment and exclusion in health care.
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.
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.
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. 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 medicalization and
resistance, and in the transforming and transformative position of
diagnosis for 21st-century global health. Smith-Morris's framework
repositions diagnosis as central to critical global health inquiry.
The collected authors question specific diagnoses (e.g., Lyme
disease, Parkinson's, andropause, psychosis) as well as the
structural and epistemological factors behind a disease's naming
and experience.
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