Diagnosis as Cultural Practice - now available in paperback (Mouton de Gruyter)

[Ulrich, Julia]

NEW FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER – NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK

 

DIAGNOSIS AS CULTURAL PRACTICE

Edited by Judith Felson Duchan and Dana Kovarsky

 

2006. x, 307 pages. Paperback. € 32.95 / sFr 53.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 32.95

ISBN 3-11-018467-2

(Language, Power and Social Process 16)

http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110184672-1&l=E

 

 

 

 

This book is about the doing and experiencing of diagnosis in everyday life. Diagnoses are revealed as interactive negotiations rather than as the assigning of diagnostic labels. The authors demonstrate, through detailed discourse analyses, how the diagnostic process depends on power and accountability as expressed through the talk of those engaged in the diagnostic process. The authors also show that diagnostic decisions are not only made by professional experts trained in the art and science of diagnosis, but they can also be made by anyone trying to figure out the nature of everyday problems. Finally, diagnostic reasoning is found to extend beyond typical diagnostic situations, occurring in unexpected places such as written letters of recommendation and talk about the nature of communication. Together, the chapters in this book demonstrate how diagnosis is a communication practice deeply rooted in our culture. The book is interdisciplinary and unusually broad in its focus. The authors come from different experiential scholarly backgrounds. Each of them takes a different look at the impact and nature of the diagnostic process. The diagnoses discussed include autism, Alzheimer's disease, speech and language disorders, and menopause. The focus is not only on the here and now of the diagnostic interaction, but also on how diagnoses and diagnostic processes change over time. The book can serve as an undergraduate or graduate text for courses offered in various disciplines, including communication, sociology, anthropology, communication disorders, audiology, linguistics, medicine, and disability studies. 

 

EDITORS:

Judith Felson Duchan, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA; Dana Kovarsky, University of Rhode Island, USA. 

 

 

FROM THE CONTENTS

 

Chapter 1

Introduction

Judith Felson Duchan and Dana Kovarsky

 

 

Section 1. Experiencing diagnosis

 

Chapter 2

Diagnosis as an aid and a curse in dealing with others

Mary L. Foster-Galasso

 

Chapter 3

A diagnosed life in an institutional setting: Can the dancer walk?

Barbara G. Bokhou

 

Chapter 4

From diagnostic to aesthetic: Moving beyond diagnosis

Ozum Ucok

 

 

Section 2. Doing diagnoses

 

Chapter 5

Revisiting authority in physician–patient interaction

John Heritage

 

Chapter 6

“I just wanna know why”: Patients’ attempts and physicians’ responses to premature solicitation of diagnostic information

Charlotte M. Jones and Wayne A. Beach

 

Chapter 7

Aggravated resistance to problem formulations in therapy

G. H. Morris

 

Chapter 8

Learning to diagnose: Production of diagnostic hypotheses in problem-based learning tutorials

Phillip Glenn and Timothy Koschmann

 

Chapter 9

Emotion and objectivity in medical diagnosis

Dana Kovarsky, Linda K. Snelling, and Elaine Meyer

 

Chapter 10

The diagnostic practices of Speech-Language Pathologists in America over the last century

Judith Felson Duchan

 

Chapter 11

The diagnosis of deafness in Nicaragua

Laura Polich

 

 

Section 3. Reasoning diagnostically

 

Chapter 12

Documenting awareness of the cultural process of diagnosis: Letters of recommendation for medical school faculty

Frances Trix

 

Chapter 13

Speaking about menopause: Possibilities for a cultural discourse analysis

Cindy Suopis and Donal Carbaugh

 

Chapter 14

The diagnosis of the constituents of communication in everyday discourse: Some functions, enabling conditions, consequences, and remedies

Christian Nelson

 

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