Biomedicine in an unstable place : infrastructure and personhood in a Papua New Guinean hospital /

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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 internation...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Street, Alice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Experimental futures.
Subjects:
Madong General Hospital.
Madong General Hospital
Medical care > Papua New Guinea.
Hospital patients > Papua New Guinea.
Hospitals > Medical staff > Papua New Guinea.
Hospitalisés > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Hôpitaux > Personnel médical > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Hospital patients.
Hospitals > Medical staff.
Medical care.
Papua New Guinea.
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