Doctors and retribution: The hospitalisation of compensation claims in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 10 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 2087-2094

  Van Amstel, Hans ^a   Van Der Geest, Sjaak ^b  

^a Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensation; Ethnography; Hospital; Medicalisation; Papua New Guinea; Wantok

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION SYSTEM; GOODS EXCHANGE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SECTOR;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; COMPENSATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICIAN; VIOLENCE;

MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 4444237495     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.03.011     Document Type: Article

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