Book ID: CBB001421878

Singsings, Sutures and Sorcery: A 50 Year Experience in Papua New Guinea, a Dokta at Large in the Land of the Unexpected (2012)

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Radford, Anthony J. (Author)


Mosaic Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xxv + 371 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

This story begins in the late 1950s, when as a medical student the author is dropped into an isolated enclave of Europeans surrounded by mountains in the Central Highlands of new Guinea. Four years later, he returns, going on to establish comprehensive training programmes in rural medicine, while serving as the only doctor for 50,000 people. After a decade, he leaves PNG, returning on numerous occasions as a consultant ove the next 40 years.

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Authors & Contributors
Kananoja, Kalle
Street, Alice
Winter, Christine
Hudson, Angela Pulley
Jerry K. Jacka
Mandy Brener
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Physicians; doctors
Medicine and society
Public health
Personal narratives
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Papua New Guinea
United States
Germany
Atlantic world
Guyana; British Guiana
Greenland
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