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.
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Judith Felson Duchan is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. Dana Kovarsky is Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island, USA.
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metaphorical diagnosis, psychosocial rounds, agentive individual, aggravated resistance, doing diagnoses, institutional object, diagnostic theory, lay diagnosis, overt questions, evidence formulating, doing diagnosis, diagnostic self, diagnostic explanations, disease metaphor, treatment talk, diagnostic hypotheses, speech correction, medical voice, thought contagion, diagnostic thinking, auditory disorders, communicative messages, ward world, special education school Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Cambridge University Press, Dana Kovarsky, John Heritage, Elaine Meyer, Disabling Evaluations, Free Press, Natalia Popova, San Diego, Sarah Gray, Thousand Oaks, University of Chicago Press, World Health Organization, Deaf Association, Englewood Cliffs, Frances Tri, Latin American, Ministry of Education, Newbury Park, Northsouth University, Prentice Hall, School of Medicine, The Rehabilitation of Speech, University of Texas New!
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- Structures of Social Action (Studies in Conversation Analysis) by J. Maxwell Atkinson on page 100, page 133, and page 134
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