By Annemarie Mol
The physique Multiple juxtaposes precise texts. along Mol’s research of her ethnographic material—interviews with medical professionals and sufferers and observations of clinical examinations, consultations, and operations—runs a parallel textual content within which she displays at the suitable literature. Mol attracts on clinical anthropology, sociology, feminist idea, philosophy, and technological know-how and know-how stories to reframe such concerns because the disease-illness contrast, subject-object family, limitations, distinction, situatedness, and ontology. In discussion with each other, Mol’s texts meditate at the multiplicity of reality-in-practice.
Presenting philosophical reflections at the physique and clinical perform via shiny storytelling, The physique Multiple can be vital to these in clinical anthropology, philosophy, and the social learn of technology, know-how, and medicine.
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Well, in this in- Instead, they are part of a specific practice stance you can. He's also published a book for dealing with life, suffering, and death. The article mentioned is entitled "Cesprekken over ziekte in een Kameroenees dorp: Een kritische reflectie op medisch- 24 the body multiple in English, in which he develops the same arguments (Pool 1994). But there you are lucky. limbs are heavy. Shoes and socks can only be undone when thefeet are lifted. The zip refuses, the trouser fabric is stiff.
One could hardly do without it. But in this Not that just about anything could be pro- book the matrices produced are primarily duced or constructed, precisely not that: spatial. The different configurations to be the flesh is stubborn. It is stubborn as long mapped are next to one another, or inside or as it is alive, but even so it is a historical above. And I will also play with and shift Eu- phenomenon. And its historicity is not a clidean images of space and come to talk mere matter of interpretations changing, about such figurations as mutual inclusion.
Conversation to the next. And if it hadn't There is an interesting article by Robert been for Pool asking questions, the stories Pool that I would like to relate to. Pool wouldn't have been told (let alone in the is a medical anthropologist who was sent way he recorded them) in the first place. " "So, Mr. Romer," the surgeon says, trying to look the old man in the eye, "what's the problem? " "It's his legs, doctor," Mr. Romer's wife answers. "He's had a heart attack, he's had two in fact. But now it's his legs.