Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital

(Part of the Experimental Futures Series)

by Alice Street

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Biomedicine in an Unstable Place is the story of people's 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 people's encounters with urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:082235778X

ISBN13:9780822357780

Release Date:October 2014

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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