Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributing authors -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Diagnosis as an aid and a curse in dealing with others -- Chapter 3. A diagnosed life in an institutional setting: Can the dancer walk? -- Chapter 4. From diagnostic to aesthetic: Moving beyond diagnosis -- Chapter 5. Revisiting authority in physician-patient interaction -- Chapter 6. "I just wanna know why": Patients' attempts and physicians' respronses to premature solicitation of diagnostic information -- Chapter 7. Aggravated resistance to problem formulations in therapy -- Chapter 8. Learning to diagnose: Production of diagnostic hypotheses in problem-based learning tutorials -- Chapter 9. Emotion and objectivity in medical diagnosis -- Chapter 10. The diagnostic practises of Speech-Language Pathologists in America over the last century -- Chapter 11. The diagnosis of deafness in Nicaragua -- Chapter 12. Documenting awareness of the cultural process of diagnosis: Letters of recommendation for medical school faculty -- Chapter 13. Speaking about menopause: Possibilities for a cultural discourse analysis -- Chapter 14. The diagnosis of the constituents of communication in everyday discourse: Some functions, enabling conditions, consequences, and remedies -- Backmatter