Body multiple -the- - ontology medical practice

Informationen zum Autor Annemarie Mol Klappentext ""The Body Multiple" is compelling, wonderfully and sometimes slyly well-written, and full of innovative insights into 'actually existing medical practice.' Mol's parallel text is well-placed intellectually in relation to her primary research text on atherosclerosis, and it provides a powerful teaching tool on how to think through and with science studies literatures when conducting an empirical project."--Rayna Rapp, New York University Zusammenfassung Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital! this title looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. It focuses on medical anthropology! sociology! feminist theory! philosophy! and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction! subject-object relations! and boundaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii 1. Doing Disease 1 2. Different Atheroscleroses 29 3. Coordination 53 4. Distribution 87 5. Inclusion 119 6. Doing Theory 151 Bibliography 185 Index 191

Product details

• Authors: Annemarie Mol, Mol, anne marie Mol, Annemarie Mol
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2003
• EAN: 9780822329176
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2917-6
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Duke University Press; Science and Cultural Theory; Duke University Press; Science and Cultural Theory
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine