Annemarie is a critical diagnosis scholar, whose ground-breaking work in the sociology of diagnosis focuses on how medical classification interacts with social and cultural interests. Her work focuses on how diagnoses emerge, what forces influence their creation, and the resulting impact of diagnostic categories on socio-cultural and health protecting practices. She has focused on agents of medicalisation, self-diagnosis, and the diagnostic moment. She has recently turned her attention to the narratives triggered by the revelation of a diagnosis, particularly in historical and creative documents. Her current work is grounded in humanities and in social sciences and explores the impact of diagnostic utterance and conversely, of diagnostic uncertainty. Annemarie was the director of "Mataora: Encounters between Medicine and the Arts" and is the Associate Dean in the Faculty of Health at Te Herenga Waka (Victoria University of Wellington). She has also worked as an intensive care nurse and a rural first responder, and has just finished her first graphic novel.
Annemarie’s Google Scholar site is here.
Here are Annemarie’s five things:
Blaxter, M. (1978). Diagnosis as category and process: The case of alcoholism. Social Science and Medicine, 12, 9-17 Link
Fleischman, S. (1999). I am..., I have..., I suffer from... A Linguist Reflects on the Language of Illness and Disease. Journal of Medical Humanities, 20(1), 1-31 Link
Zerubavel, E. (1996). Lumping and Splitting: Notes on Social Classification. Sociological Forum, 11(3), 421–433 Link
Zerubavel, E. (2007). Generally Speaking: The Logic and Mechanics of Social Pattern Analysis. Sociological Forum, 22(2), 131-145 Link
Samuel J. and Carol H. Goldstein (Annemarie’s parents)
5-4-1 interview with Annemarie Jutel