The Role of Diagnosis in Health & Wellbeing: A social science perspective on the social, economic and political costs and consequences of diagnosis

诊断是医学实践的核心。这是共同的经验，任何人谁曾经访问过他们的家庭医生，看到一个医疗专家在诊所，或被送往医院。诊断是一个社会，因为它是一个医疗事务。我们的意思是，诊断的做法和技术，成本和后果影响医生，病人和护理人员的生活和经验，也有卫生保健机构，政策制定者，管理人员和其他人的影响。尽管如此，诊断作为社会科学的一个重点，除了一些开创性的例外，很少被直接作为一个重要的主题。这一系列研讨会的目标是加强和支持诊断的新兴社会学的进一步发展。研讨会将提供一个平台，汇集来自一系列领域（包括但不限于医学社会学，科学和技术研究，医学人类学，组织社会学，卫生政策，经济学，生物伦理学和新社会运动的政治辩论）的适当专业知识的学者，讨论诊断的关键社会学必须解决的关键问题。最终，这一分支学科应该有效地突出诊断实践的社会经济成本和后果，并使健康结果的改善成为可能。为了使这一新领域蓬勃发展，并改善与这些社会过程相关的健康结果，诊断社会学的知识必须传播到社会科学和学术界之外。拟议的研讨会将汇集来自医疗专业、病人组织和政策领域的学术专家和代表，以社会学知识以及医疗专业人员和服务使用者的经验和专业知识为基础进行讨论。为了安排这些讨论并确保讨论最相关的主题，将举办五次系列研讨会，每次研讨会将围绕一个关键问题展开。问题：什么是诊断？本次研讨会将突出社会，经济，心理，道德和政治因素，形成诊断类别，介绍新的诊断，并改变诊断过程的性质。诊断技术。我们将专注于技术如何创建，重新构建和突出特定的诊断，以及是什么推动了新技术的发展。我们将探讨技术的非专业和专业使用如何改变对诊断和疾病的理解和评估。诊断和集体健康运动。本次研讨会将讨论如何诊断有争议，挑战和政治化。它将探索诊断可以影响不同社会和文化群体的不同方式，以了解对阶级，年龄，性别，种族和性行为的影响。我们将探讨诊断社会学可以从病人和病人群体中学到什么。医生和病人的诊断经验。诊断过程由外行和专业人士进行。我们将探讨诊断实践如何创造或挑战领域内和外行和专业之间以及专业之间的界限。我们将考虑如何在补充和替代卫生环境中进行诊断。政策和实践。与诊断社会学相关的主要政策领域是什么？它们以何种方式限制或促进了不同形式诊断的出现？

Diagnosis is central to the practice of medicine. It is common to the experience of anyone who has ever visited their GP, seen a medical specialist in a clinic, or been admitted to hospital. Diagnosis is a social, as much as it is a medical affair. By this we mean that the practices and techniques, costs and consequences of diagnosis affect the lives and experiences of practitioners, patients and carers, and also have implications for health care institutions, policy makers, managers and others. Despite this, diagnosis as a focus of social sciences has remained something that, with a few pioneering exceptions, has rarely been directly addressed as an important topic in its own right. The goal of this seminar series is to strengthen and support the further development of the emerging sociology of diagnosis. The seminars will provide a platform to bring together academics with appropriate expertise from a range of fields (including but not limited to medical sociology, science and technology studies, medical anthropology, organisational sociology, health policy, economics, bio-ethics and political debates on new social movements) to discuss the key issues that a critical sociology of diagnosis must address. Ultimately this sub-discipline should productively highlight the socio-economic costs and consequences of diagnostic practices and enable the improvement of health outcomes.In order for this new field to thrive and for health outcomes related to these social processes to improve, knowledge about the sociology of diagnosis must be disseminated beyond the social sciences and the academy. The proposed seminars will bring together academic experts and representatives from health care professions, patient organizations, and policy areas for discussions informed both by sociological knowledge and the experiences and expertise of medical professionals and service users. In order to structure these discussions and ensure the most pertinent topics are addressed, there will be five seminars in the series and each seminar will be structured around a key issue. These are:What is diagnosis? This seminar will highlight the social, economic, psychological, ethical and political factors which shape diagnostic categories, introduce new diagnoses, and change the nature of the diagnostic process.Diagnostic technologies. We will focus on how technologies create, reframe and highlight particular diagnoses and what drives the development of new technologies. We will explore how both lay and professional use of technology changes the understanding, and assessment of diagnosis and disease.Diagnosis and collective health movements. This seminar will discuss how diagnoses are contested, challenged and politicised. It will explore the different ways in which diagnoses can affect different social and cultural groups in order to understand the implications for class, age, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. We will explore what a sociology of diagnosis can learn from patients and patient groups.Practitioner and patient experiences of diagnosis. The diagnostic process is experienced by lay and professional. We will explore how diagnostic practices create or challenge territorial boundaries within and between lay and professional as well as between professions. We will consider how diagnosis is undertaken within complementary and alternative health settings.Policy and practice. What are the primary policy domains relevant to the sociology of diagnosis? In what ways do they constrain or facilitate the emergence of different forms of diagnosis?