Diagnostic fluidity : working with uncertainty and mutability / edited by Nina Nissen and Mette Bech Risr .

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nina Nissen (ed.)

Contributor:

Bech Risr , Mette, editor.

Nissen, Nina, editor.

Series:

Col ðleccio Antropologia Me dica.

Col ðleccio Antropologia Me dica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diagnosis.

Diagnóstico.

Local Subjects:

Diagnóstico.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 páginas)

Place of Publication:

Tarragona : Publicacions Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Creative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs https://creativecommons.org/licenses/http://llibres.urv.cat/index.php/purv/catalog/book/296

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2019).

ISBN:

84-8424-664-7

OCLC:

1139850778

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access