Biomedical Entanglements

Franziska A. Herbst

Berghahn Books, 2020

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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.

ISBN-13
9781789208221
ISBN-10
178920822X
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2020
Publication date
2020-07-01
Pages
258
Dimensions
152x228x17
Weight
368