The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
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The performative knowledge approach is more valid than perception-based approaches because it reflects reality itself and can better determine whether a barrier is a lack of confidence or a lack of knowledge.
“This form of knowledge is more valid than others as it reflects the reality itself and is thus better able to determine whether the barrier being faced is, for example, a lack of confidence or a lack of knowledge.”
From Barriers faced by undergraduate dental students when conducting research: a qualitative study (2025) · cites this paper as [27]
There is no direct access to values-in-practices, as there is no mental beeline to locating technologies in the minds of people.
“Yet, as explained by Mol (2002) and Dussauge and colleagues (2015), there is no direct access to values-in-practices, as there is no mental beeline to locating technologies in the minds of people.”
From “Alexa, who am I?”: Voice Assistants and Hermeneutic Lemniscate as the Technologically Mediated Sense-Making (2021) · cites this paper as Mol 2002
Within a practice-based approach, values are conceptualized as emerging from within practices and as embedded in and taking shape in everyday practices.
“Within such a practice-based approach, values are also conceptualized as emerging from within practices.Rather than abstract entities-BTruth,^BFreedom,^ BFriendship^-or universal truth claims that precede or transcend experience, values are understood here as embedded in and as taking shape in everyday practices.”
From Self-Tracking for Health and the Quantified Self: Re-Articulating Autonomy, Solidarity, and Authenticity in an Age of Personalized Healthcare (2017) · cites this paper as Mol 2002
Values are articulated in specific acts or enacted.
“They are articulated in specific acts or Benacted^ (Mol 2002;Pols 2012;Swierstra 2013).”
From Self-Tracking for Health and the Quantified Self: Re-Articulating Autonomy, Solidarity, and Authenticity in an Age of Personalized Healthcare (2017) · cites this paper as Mol 2002
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Stanley-Baker, M. (2019) · East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Authors
- Mol, A.
- Corresponding author
- Mol, Annemarie
- ORCID
- Mol, Annemarie
- Venue
- Duke University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2002
- OpenAlex
- W4239287321
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- FWCI
- 54.72
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- book
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- en
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- closed
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- Duke University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › General Arts and Humanities › Corporeality, Perception, and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
- Keywords
- body, embodiment, embodiment theory
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