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Subject(s)

• Public health—Social aspects [Browse]
• Social medicine—Papua New Guinea [Browse]

Series

• Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific. [More in this series]
• Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

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.

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Doi

• 10.1515/9781785332357

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