Briggs Charles L. Briggs

Tell Me Why My Children Died (eBook, PDF)

Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers, and epidemiologists; detail how journalists first created a smoke screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Chavez government's hesitant and sometimes ambivalent reactions; and narrate the eventual diagnosis of bat-transmitted rabies. The book provides a new framework for analyzing how the uneven distribution of rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health are wedded at the hip with health inequities. By recounting residents' quest to learn why their children died and documenting their creative approaches to democratizing health, the authors open up new ways to address some of global health's most intractable problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374398
• Artikelnr.: 54789482

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