Annemarie Mol: 2 books
The Body Multiple
Ontology in Medical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
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 Logic of Care
Health and the Problem of Patient Choice
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
**Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010**
What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health...