Social Issues in Diagnosis LIVES AND LETTERS The key to satisfaction lies

The key to satisfaction lies in knowing who you are and what you want

The chapters clarify how to operationalize each component of the IDEA model: internalization

David Weimer explores an alternative regulatory approach to medical care based on the delegation of decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations

He is as distinctly himself as his contemporaries Dunbar and Douglas are

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Social Issues in Diagnosis LIVES AND LETTERS The key to satisfaction liesDiagnosis, the classification tool of medicine, serves an important social role. It confers social status to those who diagnose, and it impacts the social status of those diagnosed. Studying diagnosis from a sociological perspective offers clinicians and students a rich and sometimes provocative view of medicine and the cultures in which it is practiced. Social Issues in Diagnosis describes how diagnostic labels and the process of diagnosis are