A Continuing Trial of Treatment: Medical Pluralism in Papua New Guinea

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Patterns of Continuity and Change....Pages 1-33
Infection, Innovation and Residence: Illness and Misfortune in the Torricelli Foothills from 1800....Pages 35-68
Western Medicine and the Continuity of Belief: The Maisin of Collingwood Bay, Oro Province....Pages 69-93
Doktas and Shamans Among the Sambia of Papua New Guinea....Pages 95-114
Illness and Ideology: Aspects of Health Care on Goodenough Island....Pages 115-139
Health Care and Medical Pluralism: Cases from Mount Hagen....Pages 141-154
The Place of Western Medicine in Ponam Theories of Health and Illness....Pages 155-180
The Amele and Dr Braun: A History of Early Experience with Western Medicine in Papua New Guinea....Pages 181-198
Medical Pluralism Among the Yangoru Boiken....Pages 199-215
The Doctor and the Curer: Medical Theory and Practice in Kove....Pages 217-247
Gender in the Diet and Health of the Wopkaimin....Pages 249-275
Complementarity in Medical Treatment in a West New Britain Society....Pages 277-294
Modernity and Medicine Among the Maring....Pages 295-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-335