in Canguilhem's The Normal and the Pathological, he defends the clinic against the lab
Mol summarizes, 123: "Laboratory measurements, imagining technologies, and all the rest of it allow only the recognition of what is uncommon, deviant. But Canguilhem argues that whether or not the conditions thus detected plague patients only appears in the clinic where patients relate their own, singular story"
"laboratories can establish facts, not norms"