Biomedical Entanglements
Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society| By: | Franziska A. Herbst |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9781785332340 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781785332357 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.