Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare
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Cholera, 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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520243889
ISBN13:9780520243880
Release Date:September 2004
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:430 Pages
Weight:1.43 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"
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