Multiple bodies, political ontologies and the logic of care. Download pdf the body multiple free online new books. Multiple bodies, political ontologies and the logic of care scielo. Annemarie mol the body multiple ontology in medical practice science and cultural theory 2002. If it is not removed from the practices that sustain it, reality is multiple. The body multiple ontology in medical practice book, 2002. Indeed, the dutch anthropologist annemarie mol 2002 talks about a body not as a singular, bounded entity or substance but rather as what she terms the body multiple. Mol writes, this is a book about the way medicine enacts the objects of its.
Annemarie mol, a dutch ethnographer, has written and worked with john law and has helped to develop the brand of postant amodernism that we see in his later work. In that book, just as in the earlier article, i argue that various branches of science do not necessarily share the same object, even if they give their object the same name. Presenting philosophical reflections on the body and medical practice through vivid storytelling, the body multiple will be important to those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine. Annemarie mol 1958 researches at the confluence of philosophy, medical sociology, anthropology, the sociology of science, and social theory. Drawing on fieldwork in a dutch university hospital. Drawing on annemarie mols concept of the body multiple, and focusing on three different forms of excess excess weight, excess consumption and excess skin that emerged in the course of the study, this article argues that the rationalised singularity of obesity that is enacted in the obesity. About the author currently, annemarie mol is professor of anthropology of the body at the amsterdam institute for social science research of the university of amsterdam. Annemarie mol s thesis is no object, no body, no disease is singular. 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. Drawing on fieldwork in a dutch university hospital, annemarie mol looks at the. 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. Acta sociologica 483 annemarie mol the body multiple. This is a valid statement, because concerned as it is with theory, method, and ontology, the body multiple is. Focusing on the body and disease, her ethnography of the manipulation of knowledge, and not the objects of knowledge, forces us to comprehend reality as multiple.
Mol refers to her book as a work in empirical philosophy. She argues that the body is not bounded by the skin, where we understand the skin to be a kind of container for the self, but rather our bodies always extend and connect to. Annemarie mol the body multiple ontology in medical practice. Mol s parallel text is wellplaced annemarie mol deftly reveals in compelling language how ontologies are not transcendent but are brought about in practice. Similar to helmreichs discussion of pluripotentialities, in the body multiple mol addresses the surface understanding of an objects presence or life forms being as a multiplicity. While mols 2008 analysis is based on a single case, on the treatment and life with diabetes, mol. Ontology in medical practice, annemarie mol uses incidences of the disease atherosclerosis at a dutch hospital to examine the manner in which doctors, patients, and the healthcare system construct different meanings of the body and disease.
The body multiple pdf epub download cause of you download. If it is not removed from the practices that sustain it, reality is multiple 6. The body multiple april 1, 2019 ebooks md drawing on fieldwork in a dutch university hospital, annemarie mol looks at the daytoday diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. For a longer and more extensive opening up of ontologies realities in the plural, well, there is my book the body multiple. Annemarie mol born september 1958 is a dutch ethnographer and philosopher. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction. Ontology in medical practice science and cultural theory 9780822329176. A critical tribute to george canguilhem, economy and society 27. Body multiple ebok mol annemarie mol, smith barbara. September 2003 american journal of sociology arthur w frank. Read the body multiple ontology in medical practice by annemarie mol available from rakuten kobo.
So after taking a short break from ant in our september meeting, we jumped right back in, this time reading the first chapter from annemarie mol s the body multiple 2002. Mol writes that no object, no body, no disease, is singular. In dialogue with one another, mol s two texts meditate on the multiplicity of realityinpractice. Pdf the body multiple download full pdf book download. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Annemarie mol is the author of the body multiple 4. Nov 11, 2011 annemarie mols thesis is no object, no body, no disease is singular. Click download or read online button to the body multiple book pdf for free now. When looking for a word to describe the multiple doings and beings of one disease, postactornetworktheorist annemarie mol came up with the concept of enactment in her book the body multiple, claiming that it had less baggage or discussion connected to it than the concept of performance 2 and a different notion of daily routines. Discovery of this remarkable new book sparked a vivid memory of my early wanderings in medical epistemology. However, my later book, the body multiple 2002, builds on it. The body multiple ebook by annemarie mol rakuten kobo. Drawing on fieldwork in a dutch university hospital, annemarie mol looks at the dayto.
Drawing on fieldwork in a dutch university hospital, annemarie mol looks at the daytoday diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. In this innovative and compelling book, annemarie mol argues that good care has little to do with patient choice and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care. The body multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. What a body can do a conversation with arno boehler. Durham, north carolina, duke university press, 2002. Annemarie mols the body multiple by ben belek social. Annemarie mols monograph the logic of care and care in practice a book edited by annemarie mol, ingunn moser and jeannette pols. In this interview with annemarie mol we explored important aspects of her academic production. Oct 04, 20 so after taking a short break from ant in our september meeting, we jumped right back in, this time reading the first chapter from annemarie mols the body multiple 2002. Practices, techniques, and bodies duke university press 1998. Annemarie mol annemarie mol is socrates professor of political theory at the university of twente in the netherlands. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual. Ontology in medical practice annemarie mol download bok.
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