Carolyn Smith-Morris is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University.

This is the first collection of ethnographic studies that critiques diagnosis across multiple categories of disease and illness. Smith-Morris's Introduction repositions diagnosis within critical studies of global health. The authors question specific diagnoses (e.g., HIV, tuberculosis, and andropause) as well as the structural and epistemological factors behind a disease's naming and experience.

Introduction 1. Diagnosis as the Threshold to 21st-Century Health Carolyn Smith-Morris Part I: Diagnostic Access 2. Testing Pregnant Women for HIV: Contestations in the Global Effort to Reduce the Spread of AIDS Anita Hardon 3. Resisting Tuberculosis or TB Resistance: Enacting Diagnosis in Georgian Labs and Prisons Erin Koch Part II: Medicalization and Resistance to Diagnosis 4. Promotion of Andropause in Brazil: A Case of Male Medicalization Fabiola Rohden 5. Making Sense of Unmeasurable Suffering: The Recontextualization of Debut Stories to a Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Lisbeth Sachs 6. Credibility and the Inexplicable: Parkinson's Disease and Assumed Diagnosis in Contemporary Australia Narelle Warren and Lenore Manderson 7. Defiance, Epistemologies of Ignorance, and Giving Uptake Properly Nancy Nyquist Potter Part III: Diagnosis in a Global Community 8. Supervirus: The Framing of a Doomsday Diagnosis Johanna Crane 9. Diagnosing Psychosis: Scientific Uncertainty, Locally and Globally Neely Myers 10. The Lyme Wars: The Effects of Biocommunicability, Gender, and Epistemic Politics on Health Activation and Lyme Science Georgia Davis and Mark Nichter Afterword Afterword: Diagnosis: To Tell Apart Atwood D. Gaines