LEADER 06054nam 2201057Ia 450 001 9910807216203321 005 20240410065319.0 010 $a1-59734-921-6 010 $a9786612358043 010 $a1-282-35804-9 010 $a1-4175-0814-0 010 $a0-520-93852-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938526 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007610 035 $a(EBL)224589 035 $a(OCoLC)475931453 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000251726 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174297 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000251726 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10174132 035 $a(PQKB)10605044 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224589 035 $a(DE-B1597)519020 035 $a(OCoLC)55530028 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938526 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224589 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10057108 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235804 035 $a(dli)HEB31628 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012918706 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007610 100 $a20020114d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStories in the time of cholera $eracial profiling during a medical nightmare /$fCharles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (457 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23031-0 311 0 $a0-520-24388-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Death in the delta --$t1. preparing for a bacterial invasion: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela --$t2. Epidemic at the Door: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro --$t3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa --$t4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales --$t5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions --$t6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas --$t7. Exile and Internment: --$t8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga --$t9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic --$t10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic --$t11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics --$t12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic --$t13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aCholera, 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 public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs. 606 $aCholera$zVenezuela$xEpidemiology 606 $aCholera$xSocial aspects$zVenezuela 610 $a1990s. 610 $a20th century. 610 $aaids. 610 $aanthropologists. 610 $abacterial infection. 610 $acholera. 610 $acultural anthropology. 610 $acultural perspective. 610 $adiseases. 610 $aepidemics. 610 $aethnographers. 610 $aethnography. 610 $ahealth threats. 610 $ainfectious diseases. 610 $amalaria. 610 $amedical community. 610 $amedical services. 610 $aorinoco delta. 610 $aphysicians. 610 $apublic health officials. 610 $aracial prejudices. 610 $aracial profiling. 610 $aretrospective. 610 $asocial impact. 610 $asocial inequality. 610 $asocial stigma. 610 $athought provoking. 610 $atuberculosis. 610 $avenezuela. 610 $avictim blame. 615 0$aCholera$xEpidemiology. 615 0$aCholera$xSocial aspects 676 $a614.5/14/0987 700 $aBriggs$b Charles L.$f1953-$0280717 701 $aMantini-Briggs$b Clara$f1956-$01019993 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807216203321 996 $aStories in the time of cholera$92408297 997 $aUNINA