عنوان

A Continuing Trial of Treatment :

(Number (ISBN

9400927312

(Number (ISBN

9789400927315

Number

b540728

Title Proper

A Continuing Trial of Treatment :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Stephen Frankel, Gilbert Lewis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1988

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(342 pages)

Series Title

Culture, illness, and healing, 14.

Text of Note

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.

Anthropology.

Social sciences.

Class number

Book number

edited by Stephen Frankel, Gilbert Lewis.

Gilbert Lewis

Stephen Frankel

Electronic name

[Book]

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