Animals, veterinarians and the sociology of diagnosis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2249649
AutoresPru Hobson-West (0000-0001-6105-0747, School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham Nottingham UK, autor correspondente), Annemarie Jutel (0000-0001-7131-3838, Faculty of Health Victoria University of Wellington Wellington New Zealand)
Ano2020
Volume42
Fascículo2
Páginas393-406
Data de publicação2020-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.13017
PMID31657051
OpenAlexW2981667835
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas62

While sociologists of medicine have focused their efforts on understanding human health, illness, and medicine, veterinary medical practice has not yet caught their attention in any sustained way. In this critical review article, we use insights from the sociology of diagnosis literature to explore veterinary practice, and aim to demonstrate the importance of animals to sociological understandings of health, illness and disease. As in human medicine, our analysis shows the importance of diagnosis in creating and maintaining the power and authority of the veterinary professional. However, we then explore how diagnosis operates as a kind of dance, where professional authority can be challenged, particularly in light of the complex ethical responsibilities and clinical interactions that result from the triad of professional/owner/animal patient. Finally, we consider diagnosis via the precept of entanglement, and raise the intriguing possibility of interspecies health relations, whereby decision-making in human health care may be influenced by experiences in animal health care and vice-versa. In our conclusion, we argue that this analysis provides opportunities to scholars researching diagnosis in human health care, particularly around the impact of commercial drivers; has implications for veterinary and public health practitioners; and should help animate the emerging sociology of veterinary medicine

Health care · Human medicine · Medical sociology · Political science · Power (physics · Precept · Public health · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Veterinary Practice and Education Studies · Law