Charles L Briggs

Tell Me Why My Children Died

Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Charles L. Briggs is Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and the author or coauthor of ten books.¿ ¿ Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, was the National Coordinator of the Dengue Fever Program in Venezuela's Ministry of Health and is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. They are coauthors of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361053
• ISBN-10: 0822361051
• Artikelnr.: 43551007

Autorenporträt

Charles L. Briggs is Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and the author or coauthor of ten books.    Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, was the National Coordinator of the Dengue Fever Program in Venezuela's Ministry of Health and is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. They are coauthors of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare.  

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations  ix
Prologue  xiii
Preface  xvii
Introduction  1
Part I.
1. Reliving the Epidemic: Parents' Perspectives  29
2. When Caregivers Fail: Doctors, Nurses, and Healers Facing an Intractable
Disease  76
3. Explaining the Inexplicable in Mukoboina: Epidemiologists, Documents,
and the Dialogue That Failed  109
4. Heroes, Bureaucrats, and Millenarian Wisdom: Journalists Cover an
Epidemic Conflict  127
Part II.
5. Narratives, Communicative Monopolies, and Acute Health Inequities  159
6. Knowledge Production and Circulation  179
7. Laments, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning  205
8. Biomediatization: Health/Communicative Inequities and Health News  225
9. Toward Health/Communicative Equities and Justice  245
Conclusion  260
Acknowledgments  275
Notes  279
References  287
Index  303