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Biomedicine in an unstable place : infrastructure and personhood in a Papua New Guinean hospital / Alice Street.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Street, Alice.
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Madong General Hospital.
- Medical care--Papua New Guinea.
- Medical care.
- Hospital patients--Papua New Guinea.
- Hospital patients.
- Hospitals--Medical staff--Papua New Guinea.
- Hospitals.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>This ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is complicated by the attempts of doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to others-kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers-as socially recognizable and valuable persons.</div>
- Contents:
- Making a place for biomedicine
- Locating disease
- Public buildings, building publics
- Technologies of detachment
- Doctors without diagnosis
- The waiting place
- The partnership hospital
- Research in the clinic.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357780
- 082235778X
- 9780822376668
- 0822376660
- OCLC:
- 1140001173
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