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Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare
Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page xi)
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Preface (page xv)
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Acknowledgments (page xxi)
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INTRODUCTION: DEATH IN THE DELTA (page 1)
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1. PREPARING FOR A BACTERIAL INVASION: Cholera and Inequality in Venezuela (page 19)
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2. EPIDEMIC AT THE DOOR: Cholera Prevention in the Bureaucratic Imaginary of Delta Amacuro (page 48)
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3. STORIES OF AN EPIDEMIC FORETOLD: Cholera Reaches Mariusa (page 59)
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4. FIGHTING DEATH IN A REGIONAL CLINIC: Cholera Arrives in Pedernales (page 81)
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5. TURNING CHAOS INTO CONTROL: Initial Responses by Regional Institutions (page 98)
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6. CONTAINING AN INDIGENOUS INVASION: Quarantine in Barrancas (page 138)
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7. EXILE AND INTERNMENT: The Mariusans on La Tortuga (page 163)
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8. MEDICINE, MAGIC, AND MILITARY MIGHT: Cholera Control on La Tortuga (page 179)
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9. CULTURE EQUALS CHOLERA: Official Explanations for the Epidemic (page 199)
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10. CHALLENGING THE LOGIC OF CULTURE: Resisting Official Explanations for the Epidemic (page 224)
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11. LOCAL NUMBERS AND GLOBAL POWER: The Role of Statistics (page 256)
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12. SANITATION AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: International Institutions and the Latin American Epidemic (page 269)
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13. VIRULENT AFTERMATH: The Consequences of the Epidemic (page 298)
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Notes (page 333)
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Bibliography (page 373)
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Index (page 405)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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 |
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Published: c2003
Publisher: University of California Press
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