Biomedicine in an Unstable Place : Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital - 9780822357780

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.

• | : Alice Street
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2014
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 082235778X
• | ISBN-13: 9780822357780