Artefacts of not-knowing: The medical record, the diagnosis and the production of uncertainty in Papua New Guinean biomedicine

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 815-834

  Street, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomedicine; diagnosis; hospital; medical record; not knowing; Papua New Guinea; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSIS; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; UNCERTAINTY;

DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 81255149985     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312711419974     Document Type: Article

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