Annemarie Jutel

Annemarie Goldstein Jutel (born 1958) 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 was born in 1958. She 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. 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. Jutel then joined the faculty of the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor in 2016.'''

Jutel researches the sociology of medical diagnosis. 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. 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.

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. 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.

Selected works

 * Putting a name to it
 * Putting a name to it