Differences in Medicine

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "This book, as part of a 'second wave' of science studies, advances our understanding of patients, bodies, and subjectivities in much the same way the first wave altered our understanding of objectivity and experimental practice."--Bruno Latour, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

Klappentext
"This book, as part of a 'second wave' of science studies, advances our understanding of patients, bodies, and subjectivities in much the same way the first wave altered our understanding of objectivity and experimental practice."--Bruno Latour, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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

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