Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical NightmareUniversity of California Press, 2003 - 430 หน้า 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, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs. |
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หน้า xv
... blamed for the outbreak . In 1994 and 1995 , we traversed virtually the en- tire fluvial area . In addition to giving talks on how to prevent cholera and other infectious diseases , we asked who had died in each community and explored ...
... blamed for the outbreak . In 1994 and 1995 , we traversed virtually the en- tire fluvial area . In addition to giving talks on how to prevent cholera and other infectious diseases , we asked who had died in each community and explored ...
หน้า xvii
... blame individuals and populations with little access to power and resources really doesn't work for anyone . Strategies for coping with in- stitutional vulnerabilities actually render institutions and their employees less capable of ...
... blame individuals and populations with little access to power and resources really doesn't work for anyone . Strategies for coping with in- stitutional vulnerabilities actually render institutions and their employees less capable of ...
หน้า xviii
... blaming others , a paralyzing defensive reaction that precludes a deeper search for answers that could avert a ... blame for the epidemic ; we argue that this tendency is widespread and pernicious and that it has fatal results . It ...
... blaming others , a paralyzing defensive reaction that precludes a deeper search for answers that could avert a ... blame for the epidemic ; we argue that this tendency is widespread and pernicious and that it has fatal results . It ...
หน้า 3
... blame for these sudden , violent , and inexplicable events . Many Venezuelans died in a cholera epidemic in 1854-57 , which report- edly began in the delta . But no cholera cases had appeared since that time , and Mariusans had never ...
... blame for these sudden , violent , and inexplicable events . Many Venezuelans died in a cholera epidemic in 1854-57 , which report- edly began in the delta . But no cholera cases had appeared since that time , and Mariusans had never ...
หน้า 8
... blame onto the communities in which deaths abounded . To be sure , cholera stories varied widely . Nevertheless , narrators tended to view the epidemic either in terms of its broad social , political , and his- torical factors or as a ...
... blame onto the communities in which deaths abounded . To be sure , cholera stories varied widely . Nevertheless , narrators tended to view the epidemic either in terms of its broad social , political , and his- torical factors or as a ...
เนื้อหา
Preparing for a Bacterial Invasion Cholera and Inequality in Vene1uela | 19 |
Epidemic at the Door Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro | 48 |
Stories of an Epidemic Foretold Cholera Reaches Mariusa | 59 |
Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic Cholera Arrives in Pedernales | 81 |
Turning Chaos into Control Initial Responses by Regional Institutions | 98 |
Containing an Indigenous Invasion Quarantine in Barrancas | 138 |
Exile and Internment The Mariusans on La Tortuga | 163 |
Medicine Magic and Military Might Cholera Control on La Tortuga | 179 |
Challenging the Logic of Culture Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic | 224 |
Local Numbers and Global Power The Role of Statistics | 256 |
Sanitation and Global Citi2enship International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic | 269 |
Virulent Aftermath The Consequences of the Epidemic | 298 |
Notes | 333 |
373 | |
405 | |
Culture Equals Cholera Official Explanations for the Epidemic | 199 |
ฉบับอื่นๆ - ดูทั้งหมด
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare Charles L. Briggs ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2003 |
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