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

<Div>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...

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Main Author: Street, Alice
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
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Online Access:CONNECT