Diagnostic Controversy

Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare
Herausgeber: Smith-Morris, Carolyn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138938250
• ISBN-10: 1138938254
• Artikelnr.: 42604195

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Diagnosis as the Threshold to 21st-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