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Tables of Contents for Sorting Things Out
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: To Classify is Human
1
32
Some Tricks of the Trade in Analyzing Classification
33
18
I Classification and Large-Scale Infrastructures
51
112
The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems
53
54
The ICD as Information Infrastructure
107
28
Classification, Coding, and Coordination
135
28
II Classification and Biography, or System and Suffering
163
64
Of Tuberculosis and Trajectories
165
30
The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification under Apartheid
195
32
III Classification and Work Practice
227
56
What a Difference a Name Makes--the Classification of Nursing Work
229
26
Organizational Forgetting, Nursing Knowledge, and Classification
255
28
IV The Theory and Practice of Classifications
283
44
Categorical Work and Boundary Infrastructures: Enriching Theories of Classification
285
34
Why Classifications Matter
319
8
Notes
327
8
References
335
32
Name Index
367
6
Subject Index
373