Diagnostic Controversy: Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare

ISBN-13: 9780815346555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 260 str.

Opis

This is the first collection of ethnographic studies that critiques diagnosis across multiple categories of disease and illness. Smith-Morris’s Introduction repositions diagnosis within critical studies of global health. The authors question specific diagnoses (e.g., HIV, tuberculosis, and andropause) as well as the structural and epistemological factors behind a disease’s naming and experience.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Diagnosis as the Threshold to 21^st-Century Health  Carolyn Smith-Morris  Part I: Diagnostic Access  2. Testing Pregnant Women for HIV: Contestations in the Global Effort to Reduce the Spread of AIDS  Anita Hardon  3. Resisting Tuberculosis or TB Resistance: Enacting Diagnosis in Georgian Labs and Prisons  Erin Koch  Part II: Medicalization and Resistance to Diagnosis  4. Promotion of Andropause in Brazil: A Case of Male Medicalization  Fabiola Rohden  5. Making Sense of Unmeasurable Suffering: The Recontextualization of Debut Stories to a Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome  Lisbeth Sachs  6. Credibility and the Inexplicable: Parkinson's Disease and Assumed Diagnosis in Contemporary Australia  Narelle Warren and Lenore Manderson  7. Defiance, Epistemologies of Ignorance, and Giving Uptake Properly  Nancy Nyquist Potter  Part III: Diagnosis in a Global Community  8. Supervirus: The Framing of a Doomsday Diagnosis  Johanna Crane  9. Diagnosing Psychosis: Scientific Uncertainty, Locally and Globally  Neely Myers  10. The Lyme Wars: The Effects of Biocommunicability, Gender, and Epistemic Politics on Health Activation and Lyme Science  Georgia Davis and Mark Nichter  Afterword  Afterword: Diagnosis: To Tell Apart  Atwood D. Gaines

O autorze

Carolyn Smith-Morris is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University.