- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: To Classify Is Human
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1 Some Tricks of the Trade in Analyzing Classification
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I Classification and Large-Scale Infrastructures
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2 The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems
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3 The ICD as Information Infrastructure
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4 Classification, Coding, and Coordination
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II Classification and Biography, or System and Suffering
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5 Of Tuberculosis and Trajectories
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6 The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification under Apartheid
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III Classification and Work Practice
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7 What Difference a Name Makes -- the Classification of Nursing Work
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8 Organizational Forgetting, Nursing Knowledge, and Classification
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IV The Theory and Practice of Classifications
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9 Categorical Work and Boundary Infrastructures: Enriching Theories of Classification
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10 Why Classifications Matter
- Notes
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index