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The argument presented within Alice Streets article, ‘Failed Recipients: Extracting Blood in a Papa New Guinean Hospital’ and the types of data produced by the methods they use:

Within the article ‘Failed Recipients: Extracting Blood in a Papa New Guinean Hospital’ written by Alice Street, it explores how kinship plays a crucial role in their access to healthcare and how it’s a necessity. The argument that arises from this article is how important kinship actually is as it’s within the healthcare system as the hospital rules states that it is expected for a patient to bring a ‘wasman’ which is a member of the kin to help/ assist the patient for their duration in hospital. As well as this, the patient will have their kin travel to visit them as they believe they are more likely to survive with their support in person rather than doing it alone. The blood they receive will often try to come from someone in their ‘wantok’, which is someone from the same language group as them or from the same village rather than someone unknown as this causes anxiety, which highlights the importance of kinship. 


This article produces qualitative data as it relates to a description rather than numbers, which is quantitive. In addition, this article also uses participant observation, such as speaking to patients from different parts of Papua New Guinea, which some have travelled quite far for the treatment and how this will have affected them and their healthcare, to highlight the significance of kinship within their society. 

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