{"product_id":"biomedicine-in-an-unstable-place-9780822357780","title":"Biomedicine in an Unstable Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Street’s work is a welcome intervention that nuances our understandings of personhood, materiality and the everyday workings of biomedicine in a postcolonial context. A clear and articulate ethnography, \u003ci\u003eBiomedicine in an Unstable Place\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals in the fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, history of medicine and global health.\" -- Gabriela Elisa Morales * Social Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e“Scholars of Papua New Guinea and Melanesia will naturally welcome this extraordinary book. It should also be read by those with an interest in ontology, post-colonial science, the anthropology of infrastructure, and the anthropology of the state.\" -- Barbara Andersen * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“This valuable ethnography will interest anthropologists of biomedicine, scholars of Melanesia, and the many social scientists and students involved in global health. It helps readers move beyond global\/local, universal\/particular binaries to understand how biomedicine functions in a world full of unstable places.”  -- Claire L. Wendland * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBiomedicine in an Unstable Place\u003c\/i\u003e is an important text of impressive quality. The volume makes a valuable contribution to Melanesian studies, medical anthropology, and postcolonial studies. More importantly, as Street notes in her introduction, most of the world’s people now encounter biomedicine in ‘peripheral institutions’ like Madang Hospital; more attention to the forces at work in such places is warranted.” -- Courtney Addison * Medicine Anthropology Theory *\u003cbr\u003e“Street’s contribution to medical anthropology and science and technology studies lies in her skilful analysis of the multiplicity of hospital spaces. She offers one of the finest examples of how to write hospital ethnography by articulating spatial and temporal frictions, overlaps and shifts in medical knowledge and practice. By contextualising the contradictions and paradoxes running through public health development in a poor part of the world, Street is able to provide crucial insight into people’s hopes and disappointments as they are invested in biomedical care. \u003ci\u003eBiomedicine in an Unstable Place \u003c\/i\u003eis not only instructive for anthropologists interested in the improvised nature of medicine and care in contexts of economic scarcity but also for public health workers and development aid providers who work or are planning to work in Papua New Guinea.”   -- Bo Kyeong Seo * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone interested in understanding the challenges faced by public hospitals will profit from the incisive, empathic, and compelling insights of this superb study.\"  -- John Barker * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"This excellent book is a compelling and often moving ethnography. It makes an original contribution to medical anthropology and the anthropology of the state, institutions, and infrastructure. \u003ci\u003eBiomedicine in an Unstable Place\u003c\/i\u003e also advances the anthropological study of personhood, Christianity, race, and class. The elegance of Street’s prose together with her satisfying and succinct analysis of so many complex and urgent issues will make\u003ci\u003e Biomedicine in an Unstable Place \u003c\/i\u003ean outstanding teaching resource.\" -- John Cox * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBiomedicine in an Unstable Place\u003c\/i\u003e is fresh, nuanced, and well written; it reinvigorates the hospital as a crucial research site. It is written with a keen eye toward continuities and transformations over space and time.\" -- Cristina T. Bejarano * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments        ix   Prologue        1   Part I. Place          1. Making a Place for Biomedicine        11   2. Locating Disease        39   3. Public Buildings, Building Publics        59   Part II. Technology          4. Doctors without Diagnosis        89   5. The Waiting Place        115   6. Technologies of Detachment        143   Part III. Infrastructure          7. The Partnership Hospital        169   8. Research in the Clinic        194   Conclusion: Biomedicine in a Fragile State        223   Notes        237   Bibliography        261   Index        281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406084186455,"sku":"9780822357780","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822357780.jpg?v=1730494471","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biomedicine-in-an-unstable-place-9780822357780","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}