Tell Me Why My Children Died : Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Briggs, Charles L., 1953- (Author), Mantini-Briggs, Clara, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Warrau
Ungerechtigkeit
Kindersterblichkeit
Gesundheitswesen
Epidemie
Tollwut
Epidemics.
Discrimination in medical care.
Communicable diseases in children.
Children.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
71.62 ethnic relations (sociology)
15.85 history of America.
children (people by age group)
Enfants.
Maladies infectieuses chez l'enfant > Venezuela > Delta Amacuro > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Discrimination dans les soins medicaux > Venezuela > Delta Amacuro > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Child
Communicable Diseases > epidemiology
Communicable diseases in children > Venezuela > Delta Amacuro > History > 21st century.
Discrimination in medical care > Venezuela > Delta Amacuro > History > 21st century.
Epidemics > Venezuela > Delta Amacuro > History > 21st century.
Warao children > Diseases > Venezuela > Delta Amacuro > History > 21st century.
Venezuela.
Venezuela
Venezuela > Delta Amacuro.
Venezuela > epidemiology
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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