Differences in medicine : unraveling practices, techniques, and bodies / Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol, editors.

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

vi, 272 pages ; 25 cm.

tDifferences in medicine : an introduction / Annemarie Mol and Marc Berg -- Performing sexes and genders in medical practices / Stefan Hirschauer -- Working on and around human fetuses : the contested domain of fetal surgery / Monica J. Casper -- Clinical practice and procedures in occupational medicine : a study of the framing of individuals / Nicolas Dodier -- Stabilizing instabilities : the role of the laboratory in the United Kingdom cervical screening programme / Vicky Singleton -- Inhaling drugs and making worlds : the proliferation of lungs and asthmas / Dick Willems -- Pain physicians : all alike, all different / Isabelle Baszanger -- Missing links, making links : the performance of some atheroscleroses / Annemarie Mol -- Ontological choreography : agency for women patients in an infertility clinic / Charis M. Cussins -- Architecture of difference : visibility, control, and comparability in building a nursing interventions classification / Stefan Timmermans, Geoffrey C. Bowker, and Susan Leigh Star -- Order(s) and disorder(s) : of protocols and medical practices / Marc Berg.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-266) and index.