Annemarie MolRecensioni
Autore di The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
Recensioni
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Mol writes, “In addition to disease, the object of biomedicine, something else is of importance too, a patient’s illness. Illness here stands for a patient’s interpretation of his or her disease, the feelings that accompany it, the life events it turns into” (pg. 9). This leads her to argue, “Atherosclerosis enacted is more than one – but less than many. The body multiple is not fragmented. Even if it is multiple, it also hangs together” (pg. 55). Patients display different systems, visit the doctor with different complaints, require different treatments or tests, so that the disease and its treatment take on multiple forms. In one of her best examples of the way the body changes depending on the audience, Mol writes, “Surgeons do not see blood. Or they may see a lot of blood while they operate, but they try not to. They try to keep as much of it inside the vascular system as possible. Hematologists, on the other hand, don’t see patients” (pg. 110). Both may work with the same body, but it differs depending on their goals and perception.½