MEDICAL HUMANITIES COMPANION VOLUME TWO: Diagnosis
2010174 pages Paperback
ISBN-10 1846194644
ISBN-13 9781846194641
Edited by Rolf Ahlzén, Martyn Evans, Pekka Louhiala and Raimo Puustinen, respectively GP, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden; Principal of Trevelyan College, University of Durham, UK, founder and former joint editor of the Medical Humanities edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics;Lecturer in Medical Ethics at the University of Helsinki, Finland; GP and Senior Consultant at Pihlajalinna Medical Centre, Tampere, Finland
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When a person falls ill, their experience changes - sometimes in a very minor and transient way, sometimes in a decisive and lasting one. ‘Diagnosis’ is often seen as the process of scientifically and objectively identifying the causes of this subjective experience, but is the process and meaning of ‘diagnosis’ really as simple as this implies?
As this volume of The Medical Humanities Companion argues, diagnoses are an answer to complex human needs that spring from being ill, and are in turn a complex, culturally mediated interaction between individuals, scientific discoveries, social negotiation and historical change. This volume makes visible the complexities and ambiguities involved in giving and receiving diagnoses, and how they shape and are shaped by views on what is real and acceptable, and how people relate to the phenomena of illness.
 Preface Narratives Diagnosis – An introduction Diagnosis – Telling and hearing The dialogue of the clinical encounter The double face of diagnosis What do diagnoses mean and does it matter? Intimacy and distance in the clinical examination The physician’s understanding of the patient’s bodily meaning A diagnostic jungle? – Ambiguities in classification Certainty
Anne Macleod Rolf Ahlzén Jill Gordon Raimo Puustinen Iona Heath Pekka Louhiala Martyn Evans Jane Macnaughton Carl-Edvard Rudebeck Jyrki Korkeila John Saunders
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