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Publisher | JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Author(s) | Kevin Annemarie Goldstein and Dew Jutel |
Subtitle | An Introduction for Students and Clinicians |
Edition | 1 |
Published | 15th March 2014 |
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An Introduction for Students and Clinicians
Diagnosis, the classification tool of medicine, serves an important social role. It confers social status to those who diagnose, and it impacts the social status of those diagnosed. Studying diagnosis from a sociological perspective offers clinicians and students a rich and sometimes provocative view of medicine and the cultures in which it is practiced. Social Issues in Diagnosis describes how diagnostic labels and the process of diagnosis are anchored in groups and structures as much as they are in the interactions between patient and doctor.The sociological perspective is informative, detailed, and different from what medical, nursing, social work, and psychology studentsand other professionals who diagnose or work with diagnoseslearn in a pathophysiology or clinical assessment course. It is precisely this difference that should be integral to student and clinician education, enriching the professional experience with improved doctor-patient relationships and potentially better health outcomes.Chapters are written by both researchers and educators and reviewed by medical advisors. Just as medicine divides disease into diagnostic categories, so too have the editors classified the social aspects of diagnosis into discrete areas of reflection, including