Stories in the time of cholera : racial profiling during a medical nightmare /
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 C...
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
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- 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.