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Author Herbst, Franziska A., author

Title Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society / Franziska A. Herbst
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; volume 5
Person, space and memory in the contemporary Pacific ; v. 5.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public health -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea
Social medicine -- Papua New Guinea
National health services.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Sociological Factors
Personhood
Health Services
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
National health services
Public health -- Social aspects
Social medicine
Biomedizin
Gesundheitswesen
Ethnomedizin
Geisterglaube
Dorfgemeinschaft
SUBJECT Papua New Guinea
Subject Papua New Guinea
Papua-Neuguinea
Provinz Madang
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781785332357
178533235X