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 C...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Briggs, Charles L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2003]
Temas:
Cholera > Epidemiology > Venezuela.
Cholera > Social aspects > Venezuela.
Cholera > Venezuela > Epidemiology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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.
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