Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society

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...

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Beteilige Person: Herbst, Franziska A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific 5
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332357?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (258 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785332357
DOI:10.1515/9781785332357