Stories in the time of cholera (Record no. 50088)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780520243880
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name International Book Distributors
Distributor address ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002
Bill Number ;112638
Bill Date ;22/08/2018
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 614.5140987 BRI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Charles L Briggs
-- ; Clara Mantini-Briggs
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Stories in the time of cholera
Remainder of title : racial profiling during a medical nightmare
Statement of responsibility, etc /Charles L Briggs
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Berkeley, Calif.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : University of California Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , ©2003.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxvi, 430 pages
Dimensions ;23 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2046
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement ACLS Humanities E-Book.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Death in the Delta; 1. Preparing for a Bacterial Invasion Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela; 2. Epidemic at the Door Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of 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 Contro:l Initial Responses by Regional Institutions; 6. Containing an Indigenous Invasion: Quarantine in Barrancas; 7. Exile and Internment: The Mariusans on La Tortuga.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc <br/>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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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Forensic medicine
655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Cholera--Epidemiology
Non-focus term MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Clara Mantini-Briggs
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 31/08/2018 2046.00   614.5140987 BRI 25556 31/08/2018 31/08/2018 Books
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