Authors: Judith F. Duchan, Dana Kovarsky
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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