Size and scale in medical ontology
 

Mol 120: "[I]n practice medical ontology is not an assemblage of objects that rank from small to large. There is no framing of the patient big enough to contain all the others--and thus form a 'whole.' Sure, in practice objects may be part of each other. When one object is enacted, another may be included in it. But this is not a matter of scale."

> from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2002)

> tagged with #objects, #medicine

> created May 24, 2025 at 12:50:04 PM


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