Biomedical Entanglements : Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society (Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific) (Library Binding)

An ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea.

Focuses on the indigenous population's interaction with modern medicine.

Bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the 'biomedical' is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.