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

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Release: 2003-01-17
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0822329174
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. 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, holding case conferences, and conducting doctor-patient conversations.The Body Multiple juxtaposes two distinct texts. Alongside Mol’s analysis of her ethnographic material—interviews with doctors and patients and observations of medical examinations, co Download The Body Multiple for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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