Valuing height: diagnosis, valuation and the case of idiopathic short stature

This paper proposes a ‘valuographic’ approach to diagnosis, exploring how values and valuation practices are implicated in the contested diagnostic category of idiopathic short stature (ISS). ISS describes children who are ‘abnormally’ short but do not have any other detectable pathology. In the USA...

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Autor principal: Morrison, M
Formato: Journal article
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. 2018