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  • Social Sciences
  • Cultural Studies
  • Medical Sociology

Background:

  • Diagnosis is a social construct, reflecting societal understanding of health, illness, and deviance.
  • Diagnosis is increasingly utilized in non-clinical, popular culture contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how diagnosis functions within popular culture.
  • To analyze the social work performed by non-clinical diagnoses.
  • To understand how diagnosis shapes societal interpretations of diversity and deviance.

Main Methods:

  • Examination of diagnostic applications in popular culture, including historical figures, politicians, and fictional characters.
  • Discussion of diagnostic approaches such as paleopathography and fictopathography.
  • Analysis of pathography as a mechanism for medicalization through popularization.

Main Results:

  • Diagnosis in popular culture serves to explain diversity and legitimize deviance.
  • Non-clinical diagnostic practices, or pathographies, extend medicalization into everyday domains.
  • These pathographies reflect contemporary societal anxieties and the need to make sense of the world.

Conclusions:

  • Diagnosis is a powerful social phenomenon with significant cultural impact beyond clinical practice.
  • Popular culture diagnoses reveal more about societal anxieties than the conditions of the subjects diagnosed.
  • The popularization of diagnosis contributes to a broader societal medicalization and interpretation of deviance.