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Alice Street

    Alice Street is a Chancellors Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science.

    Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
    • 2014

      Biomedicine in an Unstable Place

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.7(27)Add rating

      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