SOC 2101 Lecture 17: Lecture 17
1 Dec 2016
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Epistemology is concerned with reference: it asks whether representations of reality are accurate. Ontology: attend to the way objects are enacted in practices. Since enactments come in the plural the crucial question to ask about them is how they are coordinated. The body multiple: ontology in medical practices (mol, 2002) In practice the body and its diseases are more than one, but this does not mean that they are fragmented into being many. The body, the patient, the disease, the doctor, the technician, the technology: all of these are more than one. For even if objects differ from one practice to another, there are relations between these practices. Thus, far from necessarily falling into fragments, multiple objects tend to hang together somehow. Attending to the multiplicity of reality opens up the possibility of studying this remarkable achievement. The ebm movement advocates that decisions in the clinic be primarily based on.
