Biomedical Entanglements

Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-234-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herbst, Franziska A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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

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