The Bioethics of Diagnosis: A Biocultural Critique of Certainty |
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Authors: | Lennard J. Davis |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of ENGLISH-UIC, University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street (MC 162), Chicago, IL 60607, USA |
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Abstract: | This article argues that traditional models of diagnosis are incomplete in their reliance on a models of certainty that are no longer tenable in a postmodern world. Further, it argues that the current form of diagnosis, as applied to psychiatric and affective disorders, reduces patient agency and reinscribes the effects of biopower. |
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