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Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / Franziska A. Herbst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbst, Franziska A., author.
- Series:
- Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific.
- Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Social aspects.
- Public health.
- Social medicine--Papua New Guinea.
- Social medicine.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Medical Subjects:
- Papua New Guinea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.
- Contents:
- Ethnography and the fieldwork setting
- Bunapas health center
- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses
- The web of care relationships
- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 980748557
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