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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 ; 5Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332340
  • 9781785332357
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10953 23
LOC classification:
  • R683.P26 H47 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Language Notes and Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Ethnography and the Fieldwork Setting -- Chapter Two. Bunapas Health Center -- Chapter Three. Technologies of Disenchantment: Medical Pluralism through a Series of Lenses -- Chapter Four. The Web of Care Relationships -- Chapter Five. 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Language Notes and Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Ethnography and the Fieldwork Setting -- Chapter Two. Bunapas Health Center -- Chapter Three. Technologies of Disenchantment: Medical Pluralism through a Series of Lenses -- Chapter Four. The Web of Care Relationships -- Chapter Five. Ingenious Women: Making Biomedical Reproductive Health Care Meaningful -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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