Stories in the Time of Cholera Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare

Name: Stories in the Time of Cholera Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare
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ISBN: 9780520243880

ISBN-10: 0520243889

ISBN-13: 9780520243880

Edition: 2004

Authors: Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs

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Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/24/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Death in the Delta



Preparing for a Bacterial Invasion: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela



Epidemic at the Door: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro



Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa



Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales



Turning Chaos Into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions



Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas



Exile and Internment: The Mariusans on La Tortuga



Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga



Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic



Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic



Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics



Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic



Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic


Notes


Bibliography


Index