诊断时代：医学标签是在帮我们，还是害我们？ The Age of Diagnosis

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 19 Mar. 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1399727664

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1399727662

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 505 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm

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书籍简介

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“发人深省。它涵盖了许多困扰我却一直无法独自解决的问题——无论作为一名家长还是临床医生。”——克里斯·范·图勒肯

“对过度诊断的危害进行了精彩的研究”——《卫报》

“充满同情心，且独立思考令人振奋”——《泰晤士报》

从自闭症到过敏症，从多动症到新冠后遗症，越来越多的人被贴上各种疾病的标签。但诊断真的弊大于利吗？

疾病与健康之间的界限正在被重新定义。

心理健康的分类一直在不断变化和扩展，彻底改变了我们对“正常”的认知。基因检测现在可以在人们出现症状前数十年，甚至在出生前就检测出病理。而日益普及的健康筛查也让越来越多的人觉得自己身体不适。

准确的诊断可以带来更深入的了解，当然也能改善治疗。但许多诊断并不像我们想象的那样确凿。在某些情况下，它们甚至可能将健康人变成病人。

苏珊娜·奥沙利文博士以真实人物的故事、数十年的临床实践以及新的医学研究为基础，颠覆了人们长期以来的固有观念，并彻底改变了我们对疾病和健康的认知。

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From autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But can a diagnosis do us more harm than good?

The boundaries between sickness and health are being redrawn.

Mental health categories are shifting and expanding all the time, radically altering what we consider to be 'normal'. Genetic tests can now detect pathologies decades before people experience symptoms, and sometimes before they're even born. And increased health screening draws more and more people into believing they are unwell.

An accurate diagnosis can bring greater understanding and of course improved treatment. But many diagnoses aren't as definitive as we think. And in some cases they risk turning healthy people into patients.

Drawing on the stories of real people, as well as decades of clinical practice and the latest medical research, Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan overturns long held assumptions and transforms how we think about illness and health.

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作者简介

苏珊娜·奥沙利文博士自2004年起担任神经内科顾问，在伦敦皇家医院工作，目前是国家神经病学和神经外科医院的临床神经生理学和神经内科顾问，同时也是癫痫协会下属专科团队的成员。她专攻复杂性癫痫的诊治，并对心因性疾病有着浓厚的兴趣。苏珊娜的第一本书《一切皆在你的脑海里》（It's All in Your Head）荣获惠康图书奖和皇家生物学会图书奖，《睡美人》（The Sleeping Beauties）入围皇家科学学会图书奖。她来自爱尔兰都柏林。

Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at The Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and for a specialist unit based at the Epilepsy Society. She specialises in the investigation of complex epilepsy and also has an active interest in psychogenic disorders. Suzanne's first book It's All in Your Head, won both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology Book Prize and The Sleeping Beauties was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize. She is from Dublin, Ireland.