1st Edition
Medical Humanities Companion: V2 v. 2
174 Pages
by
CRC Press
174 Pages
by
CRC Press
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Rolf Ahlzen, Martyn Evans, Raimo Puust
