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  3. Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare

Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare

Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxi)
  • INTRODUCTION: DEATH IN THE DELTA (page 1)
  • 1. PREPARING FOR A BACTERIAL INVASION: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela (page 19)
  • 2. EPIDEMIC AT THE DOOR: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro (page 48)
  • 3. STORIES OF AN EPIDEMIC FORETOLD: Cholera Reaches Mariusa (page 59)
  • 4. FIGHTING DEATH IN A REGIONAL CLINIC: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales (page 81)
  • 5. TURNING CHAOS INTO CONTROL: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions (page 98)
  • 6. CONTAINING AN INDIGENOUS INVASION: Quarantine in Barrancas (page 138)
  • 7. EXILE AND INTERNMENT: The Mariusans on La Tortuga (page 163)
  • 8. MEDICINE, MAGIC, AND MILITARY MIGHT: Cholera Control on La Tortuga (page 179)
  • 9. CULTURE EQUALS CHOLERA: Official Explanations for the Epidemic (page 199)
  • 10. CHALLENGING THE LOGIC OF CULTURE: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic (page 224)
  • 11. LOCAL NUMBERS AND GLOBAL POWER: The Role of Statistics (page 256)
  • 12. SANITATION AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic (page 269)
  • 13. VIRULENT AFTERMATH: The Consequences of the Epidemic (page 298)
  • Notes (page 333)
  • Bibliography (page 373)
  • Index (page 405)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AE 33.1 (Feb. 2006): 27-32 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3805314
WF 61.3/4 (Autumn 2002): 354-357 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1500430
AANTH 107.2 (Jun. 2005): 279-280 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567760
AMER 61.3 (Jan. 2005): 516-517 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4490937
JAF 120.475 (Winter 2007): 102-103 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4137877
SAS 69.4 (Oct. 2005): 641-642 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40404286
CS 33, No. 1 (Jan., 2004), pp. 109-110 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3593649
LARR 41.1 (2006): 234-240 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3662794
BHM 78.1 (Spring 2004): 253-255 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v078/78.1smith-nonini.html
Citable Link
Published: c2003
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520243880 (paper)
  • 9780520938526 (ebook)
  • 9780520230316 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Latin American
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