Social Science and Medicine in Papua New Guinea
Author | : Medical Society of Papua New Guinea |
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Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Medical Society of Papua New Guinea |
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Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Donald Denoon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2002-06-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521523028 |
A study of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care in colonial Papua New Guinea.
Author | : Stephen Frankel |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9400927312 |
Author | : L. Eisenberg |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9400983794 |
The central purpose of this book is to demonstrate the relevance of social science concepts, and the data derived from empirical research in those sciences, to problems in the clinical practice of medicine. As physicians, we believe that the biomedical sciences have made - and will continue to make - important con tributions to better health. At the same time, we are no less fIrmly persuaded that a comprehensive understanding of health and illness, an understanding which is necessary for effective preventive and therapeutic measures, requires equal attention to the social and cultural determinants of the health status of human populations. The authors who agreed to collaborate with us in the writ ing of this book were chosen on the basis of their experience in designing and executing research on health and health services and in teaching social science concepts and methods which are applicable to medical practice. We have not attempted to solicit contributions to cover the entire range of the social sciences as they apply to medicine. Rather, we have selected key ap proaches to illustrate the more salient areas. These include: social epidemiology, health services research, social network analysis, cultural studies of illness behavior, along with chapters on the social labeling of deviance, patterns of therapeutic communication, and economic and political analyses of macro-social factors which influence health outcomes as well as services.
Author | : |
Publisher | : ScholarlyEditions |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 149011078X |
Issues in Sociology and Social Work—Aging, Medical, and Missionary Research and Application: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Social Work. The editors have built Issues in Sociology and Social Work—Aging, Medical, and Missionary Research and Application: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Social Work in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Sociology and Social Work—Aging, Medical, and Missionary Research and Application: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Author | : Franziska A. Herbst |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178533235X |
Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.
Author | : Byron J. Good |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521425766 |
Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.
Author | : Judith Fadlon |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780791463161 |
Examines the growing popularity of alternative medicine as a personal health care option.