ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the manner in which breast biographies and worldly interpretations impact on the interpretation of objects and suspicions within a mammogram. It discusses the 'sociability' of reading and its relationship to annotations as a means of accountably conferring note to certain features within a mammogram. Several types of mammogram features are early indicators of breast cancer: micro-calcification clusters are small deposits of calcium visible as tiny bright specks. The chapter provides an ethnomethodologically predicated account of the lived work. It proposes propose to treat reading mammograms as lived work, and argues that it is important to appreciate the social nature of the work and the embodied nature of reading and annotation. Ill-defined lesions are areas of radiographically dense tissue appearing as a bright patch that might indicate a developing tumour; stellate lesions are visible as a radiating structure with ill-defined borders.
