Sorting things out : classification and its consequences

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Contents

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

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