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This review explores social science analyses of diagnosis of childhood neurological disabilities. The paper moves through three sections, which capture the historical and conceptual trends within the literature. The first focuses on work identifying the need to communicate effectively with parents when giving a diagnosis, the second explores the role parents can play as "partners" or contributors to diagnosis, and the final section goes further in exploring the social complexity of diagnoses in order to examine the embedded nature of social practices, power relations and hierarchies, and institutions in the diagnosis encounter.
Author(s): McLaughlin J
Publication type: Review
Publication status: Published
Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Year: 2005
Volume: 90
Issue: 3
Pages: 284-287
Print publication date: 01/03/2005
ISSN (print): 0003-9888
ISSN (electronic): 1468-2044
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.2004.052118
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.052118
PubMed id: 15723919