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

by Alice Street

Book Overview

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"