Description: An ethnography of the way arterosclerosis is performed on patients by medical professionals at a Dutch hospital. The main text is supplemented by a meta-commentary regarding the theoretical issues posed by ethnographic study.
Review Quotes: "The Body Multiple is a magnificent achievement. Annemarie Mol deftly reveals in compelling language how ontologies are not transcendent but are brought about in practice. Focusing on the body and disease, her ethnography of the manipulation of knowledge, and not the objects of knowledge, forces us to comprehend reality as multiple. This book will, without doubt, move the philosophy and anthropology of medicine to new heights."--Margaret Lock, McGill University