Preface -- 1. The new diagnostics -- 2. Defining diagnosis -- 3. Interpreting tests -- 4. Diagonosis in the health care system -- 5. Testing in the workplace : predicting performance and health -- 6. The schools : testing for learning problems -- 7. The medical empowering of legal institutions -- 8. Social control through biological tests
Summary
An up-to-date look at current developments in diagnostic technology ; raises disturbing questions about the threat to our traditional concepts of privacy and personal antonomy