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Differences in Medicine - Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies (Paperback, New)
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Differences in Medicine - Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies (Paperback, New)
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Western medicine—especially in contrast with non-Western
traditions of medical practice—is widely thought of as a coherent
and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are
shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an
interdisciplinary and intercultural collection of essays that
reveals the significantly varied ways practitioners of
“conventional” Western medicine handle bodies, study test
results, configure statistics, and converse with patients .
Combining theoretical work with interviews and direct observation
of the activities and interactions of doctors, nurses, technicians,
and patients, the contributors to this volume provide comparative
studies of specific cases. Individual chapters explore topics such
as the contested domain of fetal surgery in a California hospital,
the construction of gender identity before transsexual surgery in
Germany, and differences in the treatment and definition of pain by
two clinics in France. Differences in Medicine 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.
Revealing the ways in which the bodies and lives of people are
constructed as medical objects by practitioners, technologies, and
textbooks, this collection calls for and initiates new, more
textured investigations and theories of the body in medicine and
the practice of science. It will open new discussions among medical
and healthcare professionals as well as scholars in medical
anthropology, science studies, sociology, philosophy, and the
history of medicine. Contributors. Isabelle Baszanger, Marc Berg,
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Monica J. Casper, Charis M. Cussins, Nicolas
Dodier, Stefan Hirschauer, Annemarie Mol, Vicky Singleton, Susan
Leigh Star, Stefan Timmermans, Dick Willems
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