Sorting things out : [publication] : classification and its consequences /
by
Bowker, Geoffrey C
; Star, Susan Leigh.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: London : MIT Press, 1999, cop. 1999Description: XII, 377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0262024616 (alk. pap.MeSH subject(s): Classification | Disease | Nursing Care | Disease -- classification | Nursing Care -- classificationPUBLICATION TYPE SAPHIR: MonographSummary: [Contents] Some tricks of the trade in analyzing classification. I. Classification and large-scale infrastructures. The kindness of strangers: kinds and politics in classification systems. The ICD as information infrastructure. Classification, coding, and coordination. II. Classification and biography, or system and suffering. Of tuberculosis and trajectories. The case of race classification and reclassification under Apartheid. III. Classification and work practice. What a difference a name makes: the classification of nursing work. Organizational forgetting, nursing knowledge, and classification. IV. The theory and practice of classifications. Categorical work and boundary infrastructures: enriching theories of classification. Why classifications matter.
[Contents] Some tricks of the trade in analyzing classification. I. Classification and large-scale infrastructures. The kindness of strangers: kinds and politics in classification systems. The ICD as information infrastructure. Classification, coding, and coordination. II. Classification and biography, or system and suffering. Of tuberculosis and trajectories. The case of race classification and reclassification under Apartheid. III. Classification and work practice. What a difference a name makes: the classification of nursing work. Organizational forgetting, nursing knowledge, and classification. IV. The theory and practice of classifications. Categorical work and boundary infrastructures: enriching theories of classification. Why classifications matter.