Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: What's in a Name? -- A Place for a Sociology of Diagnosis? -- An Avenue for Understanding -- 1 Lumping or Splitting: Classification in Medical Diagnosis -- The Aims of Classification -- Classification of Diseases -- Classification Systems -- Revealing Classificatory Politics in Diagnosis -- 2 Social Framing and Diagnosis: Corpulence and Fetal Death -- Corpulence -- Fetal Death -- Frame and Be Framed -- 3 What's Wrong with Me? Diagnosis and the Patient-Doctor Relationship -- Illness and Disease -- Medical Authority -- Changing Roles in Diagnosis -- What Next? -- 4 Beyond Our Ken? Contested Diagnoses and the Medically Unexplained -- Medically Unexplained Symptoms -- Discovery of Disease -- Whose Diagnosis? -- Splitting from Diagnosis? -- 5 Driving Diagnosis: Peddlers and Pushers -- Engines of Diagnosis -- Female Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder -- Discussion -- 6 "There Is Nothing So Small as to Escape Our Inquiry": Technologies of Diagnosis -- Technology and Diagnostic Categories -- Technology and the Diagnostic Process -- Screening -- Hope -- Conclusion: Directions for the Sociology of Diagnosis -- Creation -- Application -- Allocation -- Exploitation -- Moving Forward -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.