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Bodies in flux explores the inventive ways humans and nonhumans work together to manufacture medical evidence each chapter draws on rhetorical theory to investigate a specific scientific method for negotiating medical uncertainty in cancer care including evidential visualization assessment synthesis and computation. Doctors scientists and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of certainty in medical practice to help navigate the chaos caused by ongoing bodily change we rely on scientific reductions and deductions we take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. This book seeks to answer such questions by investigating the inventive ways humans and nonhumans work together to manufacture medical evidence each chapter analyzes one specific scientific method for negotiating medical uncertainty in cancer care evidential visualization evidential assessment evidential synthesis and evidential computation. Bodies in flux scientific methods for negotiating medical uncertainty c teston chicago il university of chicago press 2017 243 pp paperback 35 hardcover 105 e book 35. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for bodies in flux scientific methods for negotiating medical uncertainty by christa teston 2017 trade paperback at the best online prices at ebay free shipping for many products