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Stories in the time of cholera [[electronic resource] ] : racial profiling during a medical nightmare / / Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs
| Stories in the time of cholera [[electronic resource] ] : racial profiling during a medical nightmare / / Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs |
| Autore | Briggs Charles L. <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.5/14/0987 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Mantini-BriggsClara <1956-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Cholera - Venezuela - Epidemiology
Cholera - Social aspects - Venezuela |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
20th century aids anthropologists bacterial infection cholera cultural anthropology cultural perspective diseases epidemics ethnographers ethnography health threats infectious diseases malaria medical community medical services orinoco delta physicians public health officials racial prejudices racial profiling retrospective social impact social inequality social stigma thought provoking tuberculosis venezuela victim blame |
| ISBN |
1-59734-921-6
9786612358043 1-282-35804-9 1-4175-0814-0 0-520-93852-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Death in the delta -- 1. preparing for a bacterial invasion: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela -- 2. Epidemic at the Door: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro -- 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa -- 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales -- 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions -- 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas -- 7. Exile and Internment: -- 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga -- 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics -- 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic -- 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782918503321 |
Briggs Charles L. <1953->
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| Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stories in the time of cholera : racial profiling during a medical nightmare / / Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs
| Stories in the time of cholera : racial profiling during a medical nightmare / / Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs |
| Autore | Briggs Charles L. <1953-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.5/14/0987 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Mantini-BriggsClara <1956-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Cholera - Venezuela - Epidemiology
Cholera - Social aspects - Venezuela |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1990s
20th century aids anthropologists bacterial infection cholera cultural anthropology cultural perspective diseases epidemics ethnographers ethnography health threats infectious diseases malaria medical community medical services orinoco delta physicians public health officials racial prejudices racial profiling retrospective social impact social inequality social stigma thought provoking tuberculosis venezuela victim blame |
| ISBN |
1-59734-921-6
9786612358043 1-282-35804-9 1-4175-0814-0 0-520-93852-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Death in the delta -- 1. preparing for a bacterial invasion: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela -- 2. Epidemic at the Door: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro -- 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa -- 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales -- 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions -- 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas -- 7. Exile and Internment: -- 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga -- 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic -- 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics -- 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic -- 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996247981703316 |
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Briggs Charles L. <1953->
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| Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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