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 atherosclerosis.

What is ‘good care’ and does more choice lead to better care?

Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas.

These essays examine complexity from a variety of perspectives and cover an array of case studies and topics that include market behaviour, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, road ...

Our analytical terms had better vary. Annemarie Mol and her coauthors exemplify this in a series of material semiotic inquiries into eating practices.

El cuerpo múltiple es una etnografía extraordinaria de una enfermedad común. Basándose en trabajo de campo en un hospital universitario neerlandés, Annemarie Mol analiza el diagnóstico y el tratamiento cotidianos de la aterosclerosis.

Remet-tant en cause les vertus trop consensuelles du libre choix, s'interrogeant sur les bonnes pratiques, Ce que Soigner veut dire non seulement intéressera les spécialistes de sciences sociales ou les patients actifs, mais il pourra ...

Dans ce livre provoquant et original, Annemarie Mol montre que ce n'est pas, comme on l'a beaucoup dit, laisser les patients choisir. À partir de l'exemple des personnes atteintes de diabète, l'auteur propose une nouvelle manière de ...