The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Annemarie MolSeries:Science and Cultural TheoryPublish date:2003-01-17Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822329176ISBN-10:822329174UPC:9780822329176Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Health Care DeliverySize:9.26 x 6.08 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCBBBYTW8F
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
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....
Series: Science and Cultural Theory
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822329176ISBN-10:822329174UPC:9780822329176Book Category:MedicalBook Subcategory:Health Care DeliverySize:9.26 x 6.08 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCBBBYTW8F
Annemarie Mol is Socrates Professor of Political Theory at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is coeditor of Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies and Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices, both published by Duke University Press.
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