Conflict & Cooperation in the Development of a Hospital Auxiliary in Fiji

Abstract

In 1985-86, I conducted anthropological research in Fiji on health care strategies of Indo-Fijian women. The work was carried out in a cane-growing settlement, in a market-vegetable settlement, and a 56-bed sub-divisional hospital in Fiji's Western Division. In this paper I present a portion of that research concerning the development of a Hospital Auxiliary in terms of the moral and personal predicaments with which I battled in the course of the study.