Mosby's PDQ for Infection Control Book

Perhaps a foreign concept to many (as it certainly was to me), Mol's aim is for an ethnography of disease, specifically as it is enacted through various modes of interactions among various agents, with the subsequent result being a multiplicity of different (potential) realities to this singular object we have come to call "atherosclerosis." However, rather than being a trivial exercise in semantics, her argument builds up to an activist tone toward the end, posing questions that can perhaps guide us toward a view of health and disease with a reintroduction of the subject, and shifting toward an (re)inclusion of one's knowledge of their own body, distinct from the structures of knowledge opposed from the power-structures overhead. Although some may feel compelled to shy away from the subtext that runs throughout the entire length of the book, I really found her arguments to be more coherent by trading off section by section from subtext to main narrative.