Annemarie Goldstein Jutel is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the sociology of medical diagnosis.

Academic career

Jutel trained as a nurse at the Ecole d'infirmieres in Nantes, and then worked in France and the US as an intensive care nurse and a first responder.^[1][2] She then transferred from clinical practice into academia, completing a PhD titled Visions of vice: appearance and policy in feminine self-scrutiny at the University of Otago in 2000.^[3] Jutel then joined the faculty of the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2016.^[4]

Jutel researches the sociology of medical diagnosis.^[5] She has examined how social and cultural aspects affect the delivery of a diagnosis, and the how diagnoses are represented in literature and popular culture. Jutel has published on how using diagnostic frameworks outside of medical settings, for instance seeking a medical reason for the behaviour of a children's book character or a politician, can shut down other possible explanations.^[6] Jutel regards a diagnosis as not just a disease label but a social phenomenon, and has written about how some diagnoses carry prestige whereas others have less social standing. She has examined the medicalisation of obesity, self-diagnosis, and stillbirth.^[7][1]

She has published two books, Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2011, and Diagnosis: Truths and Tales, published by University of Toronto Press in 2019.^[8][9][10] She also co-edited with Kevin Dew the 2014 book by Johns Hopkins University Press, Social Issues in Diagnosis: An Introduction for Students and Clinicians.^[7]

Selected works

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• Annemarie Jutel (11 February 2009). "Sociology of diagnosis: a preliminary review". Sociology of Health and Illness. 31 (2): 278–299. doi:10.1111/J.1467-9566.2008.01152.X. ISSN 0141-9889. PMID 19220801. Wikidata Q37394377.
• Putting a name to it
• Annemarie Jutel; Sarah Nettleton (2 August 2011). "Towards a sociology of diagnosis: reflections and opportunities". Social Science & Medicine. 73 (6): 793–800. doi:10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2011.07.014. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 21868144. Wikidata Q48605146.
• Deborah Lupton; Annemarie Jutel (3 April 2015). "'It's like having a physician in your pocket!' A critical analysis of self-diagnosis smartphone apps". Social Science & Medicine. 133: 128–135. doi:10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2015.04.004. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 25864149. Wikidata Q33443224.
• Annemarie Jutel (August 2005). "Weighing Health: The Moral Burden of Obesity". Social Semiotics. 15 (2): 113–125. doi:10.1080/10350330500154717. ISSN 1035-0330. Wikidata Q61828487.
• Annemarie Jutel (9 August 2010). "Medically unexplained symptoms and the disease label". Social Theory and Health. 8 (3): 229–245. doi:10.1057/STH.2009.21. ISSN 1477-8211. Wikidata Q61828463.