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Diagnosis as Cultural Practice (Language, Power And Social Process, 16) by Judith Felson Duchan, Dana Kovarsky is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 d

Who reads Diagnosis as Cultural Practice (Language, Power And Social Process, 16)?

Author

Judith Felson Duchan, Dana Kovarsky

Publisher

Mouton de Gruyter

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110184662

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Medical