A Continuing Trial of Treatment
Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
Published on 31. December 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 336 pages
978-1-55608-076-0 (ISBN)
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Edition
1989
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VI, 336 p.
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
864 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55608-076-0 (9781556080760)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-2731-5
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Stephen Frankel | Gilbert Lewis
A Continuing Trial of Treatment
Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
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12/2012
Springer
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Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
1. Patterns of Continuity and Change.- 2. Infection, Innovation and Residence: Illness and Misfortune in the Torricelli Foothills from 1800.- 3. Western Medicine and the Continuity of Belief: the Maisin of Collingwood Bay, Oro Province.- 4. Doktas and Shamans among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea.- 5. Illness and Ideology: Aspects of Health Care on Goodenough Island.- 6. Health Care and Medical Pluralism: Cases from Mount Hagen.- 7. The Place of Western Medicine in Ponam Theories of Health and Illness.- 8. The Amele and Dr Braun: a History of Early Experience with Western Medicine in Papua New Guinea.- 9. Medical Pluralism among the Yangoru Boiken.- 10. The Doctor and the Curer: Medical Theory and Practice in Kove.- 11. Gender in the Diet and Health of the Wopkaimin.- 12. Complementarity in Medical Treatment in a West New Britain Society.- 13. Modernity and Medicine among the Maring.- List of Contributors.- References.- Index of Subjects.