Annemarie Jutel was originally trained as a nurse but is now a sociologist of diagnosis, Professor of Health and Associate Dean of health at Te Herenga Waka-VUW. She has written broadly about diagnosis as a social phenomenon and is an international leader in the field of sociology of diagnosis. Her books, Putting a Name to It: Diagnosis in Contemporary Society(JHUP); Social Issues in Diagnosis (JHUP) and Diagnosis: Truths and Tales (UTP) are at the forefront of critical thinking about diagnosis in medicine and in contemporary society. She was the director of Mataora: Encounters Between Medicine and the Arts.