Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792729103321 |
Herbst Franziska A.
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Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / / Franziska A. Herbst |
Autore | Herbst Franziska A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 362.1 |
Collana | Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific |
Soggetto topico |
Public health - Social aspects
Social medicine - Papua New Guinea |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
biomedical institutions biomedical services biomedical biomedicine diagnosis engaging ethnographic sites ethnographic study ethnography fieldwork giri people global health health care challenges health indigenous population indigenous populations medical anthropology medical conditions modern medicine papua new guinea personhood realistic rural health center rural health social meaning social science tribal cultures urban hospital villages |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828740603321 |
Herbst Franziska A.
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 | ||
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The Paradox of Hope : Journeys through a Clinical Borderland / / Cheryl Mattingly |
Autore | Mattingly Cheryl |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.198 92008996073 |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans
African Americans - Medical care Chronically ill children - Medical care - United States Medical anthropology - Medical care - United States Poor - United States Social medicine - United States Medical personnel and patient - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
affect theory
african american chronic disease chronic illness class clinical narrative ethnography family life health care delivery health policy health hospitals living while dying medical humanities medicine modern healthcare multicultural nonfiction poverty public hospitals race sick children social issues social science terminal illness urban hospital urban life |
ISBN |
1-283-27749-2
9786613277497 0-520-94823-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Lobby -- 2. Narrative Matters -- 3. Border Trouble -- 4. Widening the Gap: The Creation of a Conflict Drama -- 5. Plotting Hope -- 6. Daydreaming: Captain Hook Gets Speech Therapy -- 7. Fleeting Hope -- 8. Narrative Phenomenology and the Practice of Hope -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785432603321 |
Mattingly Cheryl
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] | ||
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