Annemarie Mol
Annemarie Mol (born September 13, 1958 in Schaesberg ) is a Dutch anthropologist and philosopher and professor at the University of Amsterdam .
Mol studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Utrecht and received a PhD in philosophy from the University of Groningen in 1989 . Then she was a post-doctoral student at Maastricht University (with a Constantijn & Christiaan Huijgens grant from the Dutch research organization NWO ) and in 1996 she became Socrates Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Twente (funded by the Socrates Foundation). In 2008 she became Socrates Professor of Social Theory at the University of Amsterdam and in 2010 moved to a chair in anthropology of the body.
In her book The Body Multiple she explains that the body, health and illness are not objectively defined, but are viewed differently by different groups in the health system and thus different realities are defined.
In 2012 she received the Spinoza Prize . In 2009 she received an Advanced Grant from the ERC to study eating habits. In 2013 she became a member of the Dutch Academy of Sciences .
Fonts
- with Marc Berg: Differences in medicine: unraveling practices, techniques, and bodies. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina 1998.
- with John Law: Complexities: social studies of knowledge practices. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina 2002.
- with Peter van Lieshout: Ziek is het woord niet: medicalisering, normalisering en de veranderende taal van huisartsengeneeskunde en geestelijke gezondheidszorg, 1945-1985. Boom, Amsterdam 1989 (developed from the dissertation in Groningen)
- The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina 2002 (the book received the 2004 Ludwig Fleck Prize).
- The logic of care: health and the problem of patient choice. Routledge 2008 (Dutch original: De logica van het zorgen, 2006)
- Editor with Ingunn Moser, Jeannette Pols: Care in practice: on tinkering in clinics, homes and far, Bielefeld: Transcript 2010
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| SURNAME | Mol, Annemarie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch anthropologist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaesberg |