The Body Multiple

Author: Annemarie Mol
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0822329174
Category: Medical

The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Download The Body Multiple medical books for free.
Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. From one moment, place, apparatus, specialty, or treatment, to the next, a slightly different "atherosclerosis" is being discussed, measured, observed, or stripped away. This multiplicity does not imply fragmentation; instead, the disease is made to cohere through a range of tactics including transporting forms and files, making images, hold Get The Body Multiple our bestseller medical books.

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