Biomedical Entanglements : : Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society / / Franziska A. Herbst.
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 rura...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of 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