Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital

Author/Contributor(s):	Street, Alice
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	10/24/2014
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.