Tell Me Why My Children Died - Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice

Informationen zum Autor Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs Klappentext 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.¿ Zusammenfassung This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Charles Briggs, Charles L. Briggs, Charles L. Mantini-Briggs Briggs, Charles Mantini-Briggs Briggs, Charles/ Mantini-Briggs Briggs, Professor of Ethnic Studies Charles (Unive Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780822361053
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6105-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography; Critical Global Health: Eviden; Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography; Critical Global Health: Eviden
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology