The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)

The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosc…

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