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