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Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society - Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific Franziska A. Herbst
Biomedical Entanglements: Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society - Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific
Franziska A. Herbst
An ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea. Focuses on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. Bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.
258 pages, 4 maps, 14 illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 1, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9781789208221 |
| Publishers | Berghahn Books |
| Pages | 258 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 152 × 17 mm · 368 g |
| Language | English |