ISBN:
9781785332357
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (258 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific 5
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
306.46109953
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Dedication -- List of Maps, Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Language Notes and Conventions -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Ethnography and the Fieldwork Setting -- Chapter 2. Bunapas Health Center -- Chapter 3. Technologies of Disenchantment-Medical Pluralism through a Series of Lenses -- Chapter 4. The Web of Care Relationships -- Chapter 5. Ingenious Women-Making Biomedical Reproductive Health Care Meaningful -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References --
Note:
Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly
URL:
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