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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Hlavní autor: Briggs, Charles L., 1953- (Autor)
Další autoři: Mantini-Briggs, Clara, 1956-
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©2003.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnmrd