Stories in the time of cholera : racial profiling during a medical nightmare
Documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this 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.
Print Book, English, 2004
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., 2004
456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780520243880, 0520243889
1063454758
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Death in the Delta 1. Preparing for a Bacterial Invasion: Cholera Control in Venezuela 2. Courtship of an Epidemic: Preparing for Cholera in Delta Amacuro 3. Stories of an Epidemic Foretold: Cholera Reaches Mariusa 4. Fighting Death in a Regional Clinic: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales 5. Turning Chaos into Control: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas 7. Exile and Internment: The Mariusans on La Tortuga 8. Medicine, Magic, and Military Might: Cholera Control on La Tortuga 9. Culture Equals Cholera: Official Explanations for the Epidemic 10. Challenging the Logic of Culture: Resistant Explanations for the Epidemic 11. Local Numbers and Global Power: The Role of Statistics 12. Sanitation and Global Citizenship: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic 13. Virulent Aftermath: The Consequences of the Epidemic Notes Bibliography Index
Originally published: 2002