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Author: Mette Bech Risør; Nina Nissen

Document URL: http://llibres.urv.cat/index.php/purv/catalog/book/296

Published by (editorial): Publicacions de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Repository ingest date: 2018-04-06

Document name: Diagnostic Fluidity: Working with Uncertainty and Mutability

Abstract: Synopsis Diagnostic procedures are emblematic of medical work. Scholars in the field of social studies of medicine identify diverse dimensions of diagnosis that point to controversies, processual qualities and contested evidence. In this anthology, diagnostic fluidity is seen to permeate diagnostic work in a wide range of contexts, from medical interactions in the clinic, domestic settings and other relations of affective work, to organizational structures, and in historical developments. The contributors demonstrate, each in their own way, how different agents ‘do diagnosis’, highlighting the multi-faceted elements of uncertainty and mutability integral to diagnostic work. At the same time, the contributors also show how in ‘doing diagnosis’ enactments of subjectivities, representations of cultural imaginaries, bodily processes, and socio-cultural changes contribute to configuring diagnostic fluidity in significant ways. * * * CONTENTS Foreword, Annemarie Jutel Configurations of diagnostic processess and practices: an introduction, Mette Bech Risør & Nina Nissen Part 1: Tensions in everyday diagnostic work A deviant diagnosis? Doctors faced with a patient’s diagnostic work, Sylvie Fainzang Enacting ADHD diagnosis in the landscape of care in Poland, Anna Witeska-Młynarczyk Diagnostic uncertainty and pathways to care for migrant and non-migrant families and their children, Sylvie Fortin, Annie Gauthier & Liliana Gomez Cardona Part 2: Diagnostic negotiations in the clinic From evidence to experience: the diagnosis of dementia in a US clinic, Laurence Tessier A desire for knowing: ontological uncertainty, diagnostic evidence and generative affectivity in pre-symptomatic genetic counselling, Bernhard Hadolt “I’m here to help with pain”: diagnosing and resolving total pain in hospital palliative care, Marian Krawczyk The role of pathology in diagnostic work, Torsten Risør Part 3: The power of changing diagnostic categories Offstage: madness, the ob-scene, and common sense, Angel Martínez-Hernáez The medicalization of diagnosis: from cultural and environmental nosologies to lay medical concerns, Josep M. Comelles & Susan M. DiGiacomo Afterword, Simon Cohn

ISBN: 978-84-8424-665-7

Book publication year: 2018