The Body Multiple
The Body Multiple
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10.1215/9780822384151
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2003-01
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A. Mol
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《身体的多重性》是一部关于普通疾病的非凡民族志。Annemarie Mol在荷兰一所大学医院进行实地调查，研究动脉粥样硬化的日常诊断和治疗。一份患者信息手册可能会将动脉粥样硬化描述为动脉的逐渐阻塞，但在医院实践中，这一医疗条件似乎是许多其他事情。从一个时刻，地点，仪器，专业或治疗，到下一个，一个略有不同的“动脉粥样硬化”正在讨论，测量，观察，或剥离。这种多样性并不意味着分裂;相反，通过一系列策略，包括传输表格和文件，制作图像，举行病例会议，以及进行医患对话，这种疾病变得连贯起来。《身体的多重性》将两个不同的文本并置。除了摩尔对她的民族志材料的分析外，她还对医生和病人进行了采访，并对医疗检查、咨询和手术进行了观察。摩尔借鉴医学人类学，社会学，女权主义理论，哲学，科学和技术研究，重新构建疾病与疾病的区别，主客体关系，边界，差异，情境和本体论等问题。在相互对话中，摩尔的两个文本沉思着实践中的现实的多样性。通过生动的故事讲述对身体和医疗实践进行哲学思考，身体多元性对医学人类学，哲学和科学，技术和医学的社会研究非常重要。
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. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. From one moment, place, apparatus, specialty, or treatment, to the next, a slightly different “atherosclerosis” is being discussed, measured, observed, or stripped away. This multiplicity does not imply fragmentation; instead, the disease is made to cohere through a range of tactics including transporting forms and files, making images, holding case conferences, and conducting doctor-patient conversations. The Body Multiple juxtaposes two distinct texts. Alongside Mol’s analysis of her ethnographic material—interviews with doctors and patients and observations of medical examinations, consultations, and operations—runs a parallel text in which she reflects on the relevant literature. Mol draws on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, boundaries, difference, situatedness, and ontology. In dialogue with one another, Mol’s two texts meditate on the multiplicity of reality-in-practice. Presenting philosophical reflections on the body and medical practice through vivid storytelling, The Body Multiple will be important to those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine.