{"product_id":"differences-in-medicine-9780822321743","title":"Differences in Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdvances 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Differences in Medicine: An Introduction \/ Annemarie Mol and Marc Berg 1\u003cbr\u003e Performing Sexes and Genders in Medical Practices \/ Stefan Hirschauer 13\u003cbr\u003e Working on and around Human Fetuses: The Contested Domain of Fetal Surgery 28\u003cbr\u003e Clinical Practice and Procedures in Occupational Medicine: A Study of the Framing of Individuals \/ Nicolas Dodier 53\u003cbr\u003e Stabilizing Instabilities: The Role of the Laboratory in the United Kingdom Cervical Screening Programme \/ Vicky Singleton 86\u003cbr\u003e Inhaling Drugs and Making Worlds: The Proliferation of Lungs and Asthmas \/ Dick Willems 105\u003cbr\u003e Pain Physicians: All Alike, All Different \/ Isabelle Baszanger 119\u003cbr\u003e Missing Links, Making Links: The Performance of Some Atheroscleroses \/ Annemarie Mol 144\u003cbr\u003e Ontological Choreography: Agency for Women Patients in an Infertility Clinic \/ Charis M. Cussins 166\u003cbr\u003e The Architecture of Difference: Visibility, Control, and Comparability in Building a Nursing Interventions Classification \/ Stefan Timmermans, Geoffrey C. Bowker, \u0026amp; Susan Leigh Star 202\u003cbr\u003e Order(s) and Disorder(s): Of Protocols and Medical Practices \/ Marc Berg 226\u003cbr\u003e References 247\u003cbr\u003e Index 267\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 271","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733893734743,"sku":"9780822321743","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/differences-in-medicine-9780822321743","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}