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A Continuing Trial of Treatment

Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Stephen Frankel

    1. Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK

  2. Gilbert Lewis

    1. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

Part of the book series: Culture, Illness and Healing (CIHE, volume 14)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Patterns of Continuity and Change

    • Stephen Frankel, Gilbert Lewis
    Pages 1-33

  3. Infection, Innovation and Residence: Illness and Misfortune in the Torricelli Foothills from 1800

    • Bryant J. Allen
    Pages 35-68

  4. Western Medicine and the Continuity of Belief: The Maisin of Collingwood Bay, Oro Province

    • John Barker
    Pages 69-93

  5. Doktas and Shamans Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea

    • Gilbert H. Herdt
    Pages 95-114

  6. Illness and Ideology: Aspects of Health Care on Goodenough Island

    • Michael W. Young
    Pages 115-139

  7. Health Care and Medical Pluralism: Cases from Mount Hagen

    • Andrew Strathern
    Pages 141-154

  8. The Place of Western Medicine in Ponam Theories of Health and Illness

    • Achsah H. Carrier
    Pages 155-180

  9. The Amele and Dr Braun: A History of Early Experience with Western Medicine in Papua New Guinea

    • Carol Jenkins
    Pages 181-198

  10. Medical Pluralism Among the Yangoru Boiken

    • P. Roscoe
    Pages 199-215

  11. The Doctor and the Curer: Medical Theory and Practice in Kove

    • Ann Chowning
    Pages 217-247

  12. Gender in the Diet and Health of the Wopkaimin

    • David C. Hyndman
    Pages 249-275

  13. Complementarity in Medical Treatment in a West New Britain Society

    • David R. Counts, Dorothy Ayers Counts
    Pages 277-294

  14. Modernity and Medicine Among the Maring

    • Edward Lipuma
    Pages 295-310

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 311-335
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK

    Stephen Frankel

  • Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

    Gilbert Lewis

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Continuing Trial of Treatment

  • Book Subtitle: Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea

  • Editors: Stephen Frankel, Gilbert Lewis

  • Series Title: Culture, Illness and Healing

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2731-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0078-6Published: 21 December 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2731-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 336

  • Topics: Anthropology

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