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UNINA9910828740603321 |
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Autore |
Herbst Franziska A. |
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Titolo |
Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public health - Social aspects |
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
Papua New Guinea |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. 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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