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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... lives . We introduce the term medical profiling to suggest that , just as police officers in the United States single out people of color for traffic stops and searches , clinicians and public health authorities sometimes assume that ...
... lives . We introduce the term medical profiling to suggest that , just as police officers in the United States single out people of color for traffic stops and searches , clinicians and public health authorities sometimes assume that ...
หน้า xvii
... lives lived without resort- ing to a denigrating process that ultimately denigrates us all . From start to finish , the research that has gone into this book has been collaborative . We discussed nearly every aspect of the data and ...
... lives lived without resort- ing to a denigrating process that ultimately denigrates us all . From start to finish , the research that has gone into this book has been collaborative . We discussed nearly every aspect of the data and ...
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... lives and endangering their health . Pinning the blame on particular individuals , communities , and nations was precisely the strategy used by dominant institutions to shield themselves from blame for the epidemic ; we argue that this ...
... lives and endangering their health . Pinning the blame on particular individuals , communities , and nations was precisely the strategy used by dominant institutions to shield themselves from blame for the epidemic ; we argue that this ...
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... lives . One example : In Wakanoko , a small community near Guayo , nearly a third of the popu- lation died from cholera in a single night , and another third left the com- munity shortly thereafter , stricken by fear and grief . The ...
... lives . One example : In Wakanoko , a small community near Guayo , nearly a third of the popu- lation died from cholera in a single night , and another third left the com- munity shortly thereafter , stricken by fear and grief . The ...
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... lives will soon exist only in the pages of this book . A similar problem renders it impossible to thank adequately the many physicians , nurses , public health and other officials , politicians , business- people , taxi drivers , and ...
... lives will soon exist only in the pages of this book . A similar problem renders it impossible to thank adequately the many physicians , nurses , public health and other officials , politicians , business- people , taxi drivers , and ...
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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 |
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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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