『Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences』

Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star

(1999年10月刊行,The MIT Press[Series: Inside Technology], Massachusetts, xii+377pp.,ISBN:0262024616 [hbk] / ISBN:0262522950 [pbk] )

【目次】
Acknowledgments ix


Introduction: To classify is human 1
Chap. 1 - Some tricks of the trade in analyzing classification 33


Part 1: Classification and large-scale infrastructures 51

Chap. 2 - The kindness of strangers: Kinds and politics in classification systems 53
Chap. 3 - The ICD as information infrastructure 107
Chap. 4 - Classification, coding, and coordination 135


Part 2: Classification and biography, or system and suffering 163

Chap. 5 - Of tuberculosis and trajectories 165
Chap. 6 - The case of race classification and reclassification under aprtheid 195


Part 3: Classification and work practice 227

Chap. 7 - What a difference a name makes - The classificatioin of nursing work 229
Chap. 8 - Organizational forgetting, nursing knowledge, and classification 255


Part 4: The theory and practice of classifications 283

Chap. 9 - Categorical work and boundary infrastructures: Enriching theories of classifications 285
Chap. 10 - Why classifications matter 319


Notes 327
References 335
Name index 367
Subject index 373