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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Briggs, Charles L., 1953- (مؤلف)
مؤلفون آخرون: Mantini-Briggs, Clara, 1956-
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©2003.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnmrd