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

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

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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.