TY - BOOK ID - 134809667 TI - Biomedical entanglements : conceptions of personhood in a Papua New Guinea society PY - 2017 PB - New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Public health KW - Social medicine KW - Social aspects. KW - Papua New Guinea KW - anthropology. KW - biomedical institutions. KW - biomedical services. KW - biomedical. KW - biomedicine. KW - diagnosis. KW - engaging. KW - ethnographic sites. KW - ethnographic study. KW - ethnography. KW - fieldwork. KW - giri people. KW - global health. KW - health care challenges. KW - health. KW - indigenous population. KW - indigenous populations. KW - medical anthropology. KW - medical conditions. KW - modern medicine. KW - papua new guinea. KW - personhood. KW - realistic. KW - rural health center. KW - rural health. KW - social meaning. KW - social science. KW - tribal cultures. KW - urban hospital. KW - villages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134809667 AB - 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. ER -