The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice

by Annemarie Mol and Mol

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329174
• ISBN13: 9780822329176
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"