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Biomedical Entanglements

Autor Franziska A Herbst
en Limba Engleză Hardback – oct 2016
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781785332340
ISBN-10: 1785332341
Pagini: 258
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS

Notă biografică

Franziska A. Herbst is a researcher at the Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School.

Cuprins

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

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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. 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.