The body multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease drawing on fieldwork in a dutch university hospital annemarie mol looks at the day to day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. The body multiple ontology in medical practice science and cultural theory by annemarie mol2003 01 17 annemarie mol books amazonca. Mol illuminates the way that the body and other subjects objects are enacted in multiple forms through a praxiological inquiry which foregrounds ontological rather than epistemological enactment rather than construction in many ways this study aligns with bruno latours modes of existence project lots to think about here. Mol draws on medical anthropology sociology feminist theory philosophy and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease illness distinction subject object relations boundaries difference situatedness and ontology in dialogue with one another mols two texts meditate on the multiplicity of reality in practice presenting philosophical reflections on the body . The body multiple ontology in medical practice by annemarie molthe body multiple ontology in medical practice september 2003 american journal of sociology 1092532 534