Briggs / Mantini-Briggs Tell Me Why My Children Died

Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briggs, Charles L.

Mantini-Briggs, Clara

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations ix

Prologue xiii

Preface xvii

Introduction 1

Part I.

1. Reliving the Epidemic: Parents' Perspectives 29

2. When Caregivers Fail: Doctors, Nurses, and Healers Facing an Intractable Disease 76

3. Explaining the Inexplicable in Mukoboina: Epidemiologists, Documents, and the Dialogue That Failed 109

4. Heroes, Bureaucrats, and Millenarian Wisdom: Journalists Cover an Epidemic Conflict 127

Part II.

5. Narratives, Communicative Monopolies, and Acute Health Inequities 159

6. Knowledge Production and Circulation 179

7. Laments, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning 205

8. Biomediatization: Health/Communicative Inequities and Health News 225

9. Toward Health/Communicative Equities and Justice 245

Conclusion 260

Acknowledgments 275

Notes 279

References 287

Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

Charles L. Briggs is Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and the author or coauthor of ten books. Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, was the National Coordinator of the Dengue Fever Program in Venezuela's Ministry of Health and is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. They are coauthors of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare.