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Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / Franziska A. Herbst.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 5.Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xv, 241 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1785332341
  • 9781785332340
Other title:
  • Conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 610.9953 23
LOC classification:
  • R683.P26 H47 2017
Contents:
List of Maps, figures and illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Language notes and conventions -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- 2. Bunapas health center -- 3. Technologies of disenchantment: medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- 4. The web of care relationships -- 5. Ingenious women: making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Maps, figures and illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Language notes and conventions -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- 2. Bunapas health center -- 3. Technologies of disenchantment: medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- 4. The web of care relationships -- 5. Ingenious women: making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

"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."--Publisher's website.

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