SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Solitude, Overdiagnosis
22 Apr 2019
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Sosa2503: lecture 7 diagnosis: the social dimensions of medical assessments. The social importance of diagnosis: sociology of diagnosis : diagnosis can provide access to resources. It can provide or deny access to resources: diagnosis provides access to extended medical befits. Disability payments, worker"s compensations: diagnosis is used for social control, labelling some behaviours or traits as abnormal. Diagnosis is an interaction where sociology and medicine meet. There are 3 social dimensions of diagnosis: diagnostic bias: how diagnostic categories produce biased outcomes, diagnostic consequences who diagnoses sort people, diagnosis in action how psychiatrists use, or don"t use, the dsm. Diagnostic bias: psychiatric categories (dsm) are typically standardized in reference to white, middle-class men, what this means: Psychiatry labels that is deviant or dysfunctional in reference to the normal experiences of a small portion of society. Became described as a disease rather than a behaviour. Blaming others (paranoia) became a major symptom. More males (more masculine language: before the changes:
