Description
Book SynopsisAdvances 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.
Trade Review“An outstanding example of some of the best work done at the research front of the field and of recent work that strives to go beyond both technological and social/cultural determinism.”—Alberto Cambrosio, McGill University
"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 Supérieure des Mines
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
