Stephen Frankel / Gilbert Lewis (eds.)

A Continuing Trial of Treatment

Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea
Herausgegeben:Frankel, Stephen; Lewis, Gilbert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Culture, Illness and Healing 14
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-55608-076-0
• 1989
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781556080760
• ISBN-10: 155608076X
• Artikelnr.: 23078003

Inhaltsangabe

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.