Differences in Medicine

Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies
Herausgeber: Berg, Marc; Mol, Annemarie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Advances earlier studies on medicine's social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences in the presumptions and decisions that affect patients' lives, and marks a dramatic development in both the study of medicine and in science studies generally.

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Produktdetails

• Body, Commodity, Text
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780822321743
• ISBN-10: 0822321742
• Artikelnr.: 22208751

Autorenporträt

Marc Berg is a researcher at the School of Health Sciences at Maastricht University. Annemarie Mol is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Twente.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Differences in Medicine: An Introduction / Annemarie Mol and Marc Berg 1
Performing Sexes and Genders in Medical Practices / Stefan Hirschauer 13
Working on and around Human Fetuses: The Contested Domain of Fetal Surgery
28
Clinical Practice and Procedures in Occupational Medicine: A Study of the
Framing of Individuals / Nicolas Dodier 53
Stabilizing Instabilities: The Role of the Laboratory in the United Kingdom
Cervical Screening Programme / Vicky Singleton 86
Inhaling Drugs and Making Worlds: The Proliferation of Lungs and Asthmas /
Dick Willems 105
Pain Physicians: All Alike, All Different / Isabelle Baszanger 119
Missing Links, Making Links: The Performance of Some Atheroscleroses /
Annemarie Mol 144
Ontological Choreography: Agency for Women Patients in an Infertility
Clinic / Charis M. Cussins 166
The Architecture of Difference: Visibility, Control, and Comparability in
Building a Nursing Interventions Classification / Stefan Timmermans,
Geoffrey C. Bowker, & Susan Leigh Star 202
Order(s) and Disorder(s): Of Protocols and Medical Practices / Marc Berg
226
References 247
Index 267
Contributors 271