Biomedicine in an unstable place : infrastructure and personhood in a Papua New Guinean hospital
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書誌事項
Biomedicine in an unstable place : infrastructure and personhood in a Papua New Guinean hospital
(Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices)
Duke University Press, 2014
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  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-280) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 Guinea, a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional, medical, and ontological instability.
In the hospital's clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others-to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers-as socially recognizable and valuable persons. Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.
目次
Acknowledgments 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
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