Street Biomedicine in an Unstable Place

Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7666-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

This ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is complicated by the attempts of doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to others—kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Street, Alice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue 1

Part I. Place

1. Making a Place for Biomedicine 11

2. Locating Disease 39

3. Public Buildings, Building Publics 59

Part II. Technology

4. Doctors without Diagnosis 89

5. The Waiting Place 115

6. Technologies of Detachment 143

Part III. Infrastructure

7. The Partnership Hospital 169

8. Research in the Clinic 194

Conclusion: Biomedicine in a Fragile State 223

Notes 237

Bibliography 261

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Street is a Chancellors Fellow in Social Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.