Notes from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology and Medical Practice
1. Enactment as opposed to knowledge
2. More than one, but not fragmented
3. Medicine's "ontological politics"
4. Various approaches to building knowledge about the body
5. Sources of knowledge, styles of knowing
6. Objects in Mol's "empirical philosophy"
7. An ethnography for objects
8. Attending to the multiplicity
9. Epistemological normativity vs ethnographic normativity
10. Ontology and practices
11. Who studies disease
12. Generalizations about "the literature," in Mol
13. Sickness as ritual
14. Talcott Parsons and medical sociology
15. The dangers of "perspectivalism"
16. Reporting on impairment
17. Doctors as producers of knowledge
18. The problems of trying to "locate" your work within a discipline
19. Marilyn Strathern's work on kinship
20. Melanesian kinship networks
21. The future of family relations
22. 1963: The coining of "gender identity"
23. The "illness" / "disease" distinction
24. Who or what makes events happen
25. Barbara Duden's "The Women Beneath the Skin"
26. Medicine and the "modern Western body"
27. Mol: "The flesh is stubborn"
28. "A paper that does not have references"
29. Modern practices, modern thinking (in Latour)
30. Latour's mixtures
31. The performance of disease
32. The ethnographic study of practices
33. Goffman's social self
34. Enactments that exclude
35. No identity but performance
36. Constructed by deeds
37. Pathology
38. Incoherent gender configurations
39. Gender materiality and immateriality
40. Stefan Hirschauer and gender performance
41. "Laboratories secrete reality"
42. "Ontological choreography"
43. Pathology in medicine
44. Complaints as medical ontology
45. The meaning and definiton of disability
46. Foucault's escape from dominant modes of thinking
47. The knowledge in "practices"
48. "Disease is a process in time"
49. Enacting reality
50. Nothing "is" alone
51. Parson's "The Social System"
52. Forms of coordination
53. Foucault's "normalization"
54. Physicians and social control
55. Associations and the Pasteurization of France
56. Social worlds
57. Ways of worldmaking
58. John Law on discourses
59. Science and the "multiplication of reality"
60. Data and the technology that makes them
61. Totalizing anthropological theories
62. Strathern's "partial connections"
63. "Closing" controversies, in science studies
64. "Radical Science Journal"
65. Indication criteria
66. Diverging theories of tuberculosis
67. "What is it to differ?"
68. Size and scale in medical ontology
69. The normal and the pathological
70. The clinic vs the lab
71. Foucault on the normal and the pathological
72. Where an organism begins and ends
73. Cultural hygiene
74. The institutionalization of ethnic identity
75. The boundary object
76. Networks and regions in geography
77. Networks and practices in science
78. Objects, practices, and reality
79. Biological facts vs. social events
80. Donna Haraway's "Primate Visions"
81. Praxiographic knowledge
82. "The practices forcing an object to speak"
83. Diagnosing, intervening, and enactment
84. Mol on "the effects of writing styles"
85. Epstein's "Impure Science"
86. Edward Soja's "Postmodern Geographies"
87. "The critical ontology of ourselves"
88. John Law and Annemarie Mol

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