Mol 35: "The practices of enacting clinical atherosclerosis and pathological atherosclerosis exclude one another."
Certain "exigencies are incompatible [...] they cannot be realized simultaneously. This is not a question of words that prove difficult to translate from one department to another."
83: "In practice a disease, atherosclerosis, is no longer one"
51: "what I am trying to relate is not that there are two, five, or seventy variants of atherosclerosis, but that there is multiplicity."
They require things like "a cross section of an artery" or "a patient who complains"
"When the patient's feelings and the results of [, say,] pressure measurements contradict each other, they are no longer signs of a single object [...] it is possible to sustain the singularity of the object, but one signifier must be discarded" (62)
83: "If we no longer presume 'disease' to be a universal object hidden under the body's skin, but make the praxiographic shift to studying bodies and diseases while they are being enacted in daily hospital practices, multiplication follows."