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Stories in the time of cholera : racial profiling during a medical nightmare /

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., 1953- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Mantini-Briggs, Clara, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo