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 ...
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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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Good in Good jacket. Size: 4to-over 9; Atheneum, 1966. First US Edition. Hardcover Retired Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. In good, clean and otherwise unmarked condition, solid and tight binding. Pages quite clean and completely unmarked. The Bayeux Tapestry is over 900 years old. It is a dramatic record of one of the greatest events that shaped British history, The Norman Conquest, 1066. There is also much information about life in the eleventh century stored in this classic seventy-two scene "picture strip" tapestry, made within a few years of this historical event. This book provides an interpretation of the Tapestry, telling the story as it unfolds in the illustrations, discussing each episode and comparing it with the visual account, which is reproduced in its entirely. Landscape format: 8.5" H x 10" L. 1966, Atheneum.
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1985
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Horizontal 8vo, pp. not numbered. Illustrated in color, with running explanation of the scenes. Map on endpapers. Blue paper over boards. Edges of cover little scuffed, o/w a nice copy in chipped and little soiled dj. For children.
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