Description: Biomedicine in an Unstable Place by Alice Street Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description 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 international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Publisher Description Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of peoples struggle to make biomedicine work in a public hospital in Papua New Guinea. It is a story encompassing the history of hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance, the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global medical research and public health, and peoples encounters with urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea, a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional, medical, and ontological instability.In the hospitals clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others-to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers-as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways. Author Biography Alice Street is a Chancellors Fellow in Social Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Details ISBN 0822357615 ISBN-13 9780822357612 Title Biomedicine in an Unstable Place Author Alice Street Format Hardcover Year 2014 Pages 304 Publisher Duke University Press GE_Item_ID:161669071; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780822357612
Book Title: Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Biomedicine in an Unstable Place : Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Public Health, Health Care Delivery, Physician & Patient, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Hospital Administration & Care
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Author: Not Available
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Series: Experimental Futures Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
