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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.

Biomedicine in an Unstable Place

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This ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is... Read more

    Publisher: MD - Duke University Press
    Publication Date: 10/24/2014 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780822357612, 978-0822357612
    ISBN10: 0822357615

    Number of Pages: 304

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    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.

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