SOC 445 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading #7 pt 1/2: The Name Game, Social Psychiatry, Forego

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

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Brown - the name game: toward a sociology of diagnosis. The vagaries of psychiatric diagnosis: 20th century psychopathic, women were committed to the hospital for. - but hardly address validity: validity requires that the variable or item be highly correlated with a known measure, such as clinical diagnosis in medical records. Psychiatry response to the sexual morality was to target it as a mental disease. Sexual freedom was one of the many manifestations of these new women"s autonomy in the world of work, pleasure, and social and familial relations. The power to give the name has been a core element in the social control nature of the mental health professionals and institutions. Puts in the context f the entirety of psychiatric knowledge and practice. Since medicine requires a match between disease and treatment, exact diagnosis became increasingly important. Psychiatry often made a diagnosis based on the patient"s response to medication.