Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Herbst, Franziska A.

Publication

New York : Berghahn, 2017.

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Details

Description

xv, 241 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

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."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; volume 5

Uniform Title

Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 5.

Subject

• Medical care > Papua New Guinea
• National health services
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Sociological Factors
• Personhood
• Health Services
• State Medicine
• National health services
• Medical care
• Biomedizin
• Gesundheitswesen
• Ethnomedizin
• Geisterglaube
• Dorfgemeinschaft
• Iwi taketake
• Papua New Guinea
• Papua-Neuguinea
• Provinz Madang

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ethnography and the fieldwork setting -- Bunapas health center -- Technologies of disenchantment-medical pluralism through a series of lenses -- The web of care relationships -- Ingenious women-making biomedical reproductive health care meaningful.

ISBN

• 9781785332340
• 1785332341
• 9781785332357 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2016025398

OCLC

• ocn968177962
• 968177962
• SCSB-1871033

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library