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Detecting disease and designing treatment. Duplex and the diagnosis of diseased leg vessels
Author(s) -
Mol Annemarie,
Elsman Bernard
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10934509
Subject(s) - duplex (building) , treatment protocol , medicine , protocol (science) , disease , angiography , vascular disease , radiology , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine , biology , dna , genetics
In hospital Z, a Dutch university hospital, a new protocol for the diagnosis of vascular patients has been introduced. It requires vascular surgeons to rely sometimes on a non‐invasive diagnostic technique, called duplex, in place of a previously used invasive one, called angiography. This article is a multivocal account of the protocol's introduction. It focuses on the intricate ways in which two aspects of diagnosis, the detection of disease and the design of treatment, relate.