"This book, as part of a 'second wave' of science studies, advances our understanding of patients, bodies, and subjectivities in much the same way the first wave altered our understanding of objectivity and experimental practice."--Bruno Latour, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines

Acknowledgments vii
Differences in Medicine: An Introduction / Annemarie Mol and Marc Berg 1
Performing Sexes and Genders in Medical Practices / Stefan Hirschauer 13
Working on and around Human Fetuses: The Contested Domain of Fetal Surgery 28
Clinical Practice and Procedures in Occupational Medicine: A Study of the Framing of Individuals / Nicolas Dodier 53
Stabilizing Instabilities: The Role of the Laboratory in the United Kingdom Cervical Screening Programme / Vicky Singleton 86
Inhaling Drugs and Making Worlds: The Proliferation of Lungs and Asthmas / Dick Willems 105
Pain Physicians: All Alike, All Different / Isabelle Baszanger 119
Missing Links, Making Links: The Performance of Some Atheroscleroses / Annemarie Mol 144
Ontological Choreography: Agency for Women Patients in an Infertility Clinic / Charis M. Cussins 166
The Architecture of Difference: Visibility, Control, and Comparability in Building a Nursing Interventions Classification / Stefan Timmermans, Geoffrey C. Bowker, & Susan Leigh Star 202
Order(s) and Disorder(s): Of Protocols and Medical Practices / Marc Berg 226
References 247
Index 267
Contributors 271

Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol, eds.