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anthropology
Author_Franziska A. Herbst
biomedical
biomedical institutions
biomedical services
biomedicine
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diagnosis
engaging
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ethnographic sites
ethnographic study
ethnography
fieldwork
giri people
global health
health
health care challenges
indigenous population
indigenous populations
medical anthropology
medical conditions
modern medicine
papua new guinea
personhood
realistic
rural health
rural health center
social meaning
social science
tribal cultures
urban hospital
villages
Product details
- ISBN 9781789208221
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.
Franziska A. Herbst is a researcher at the Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School.
