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Tell me why my children died : rabies, indigenous knowledge, and communicative justice /
This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Critical global health.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reliving the epidemic: parents' perspectives
- When caregivers fail: doctors, nurses, and healers facing an intractable disease
- Explaining the inexplicable in Mukoboina: epidemiologists, documents, and the dialogue that failed
- Heroes, bureaucrats, and millenarian wisdom: journalists cover an epidemic conflict
- Narratives, communicative monopolies, and acute health inequities
- Knowledge production and circulation
- Laments, psychoanalysis, and the work of mourning
- Biomediatization: health/communicative inequities and health news
- Toward health/communicative equities and justice.