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dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, Erik Børve
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-21T09:01:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-21T08:39:38Z
dc.date.available2020-07-21T09:01:19Z
dc.date.available2020-09-21T08:39:38Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-15
dc.identifier.citationRasmussen EBR. Making and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’. Social Studies of Science. 2020en
dc.identifier.issn0306-3127
dc.identifier.issn0306-3127
dc.identifier.issn1460-3659
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/8934
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the making and management of anomaly in scientific work, taking ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ (MUS) as its case. MUS is a category used to characterize health conditions that are widely held to be ambiguous, in terms of their nature, causes and treatment. It has been suggested that MUS is a ‘wastebasket diagnosis’. However, although a powerful metaphor, it does neither the category nor the profession justice: Unlike waste in a wastebasket, unexplained symptoms are not discarded but contained, not ejected but managed. Rather than a ‘wastebasket’, I propose that we instead think about it as a ‘junk drawer’. A junk drawer is an ordering device whose function is the containment of things we want to keep but have nowhere else to put. Based on a critical document analysis of the research literature on MUS (107 research articles from 10 medical journals, published 2001–2016), the article explores how the MUS category is constituted and managed as a junk drawer in medical science.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSocial Studies of Science;Vol 50, Issue 6, 2020
dc.rightsThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAmbiguitiesen
dc.subjectAnomaliesen
dc.subjectClassificationsen
dc.subjectMedical scienceen
dc.subjectMedically unexplained symptomsen
dc.titleMaking and managing medical anomalies: Exploring the classification of ‘medically unexplained symptoms’en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.typePeer revieweden
dc.date.updated2020-07-21T09:01:19Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306312720940405
dc.identifier.cristin1819993
dc.source.journalSocial Studies of Science


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