Tell me why my children died : rabies, indigenous knowledge, and communicative justice / Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-Briggs.
| Author/creator | Briggs, Charles L., 1953- author. |
| Other author | Mantini-Briggs, Clara, 1956- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2016. |
| Copyright Date | ©20 |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxi, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography Critical global health. ^A1271850 |
| Contents | Reliving the epidemic: parents' perspectives -- When caregivers fail: doctors, nurses, and healers facing an intractable disease -- Explaining the inexplicable in Mukoboina: epidemiologists, documents, and the dialogue that failed -- Heroes, bureaucrats, and millenarian wisdom: journalists cover an epidemic conflict -- Narratives, communicative monopolies, and acute health inequities -- Knowledge production and circulation -- Laments, psychoanalysis, and the work of mourning -- Biomediatization: health/communicative inequities and health news -- Toward health/communicative equities and justice. |
| Abstract | This gripping book narrates the efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-eight people in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008 and sketches out systematic health inequities regarding the rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health throughout indigenous communities. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Language | English. |
| Action note | digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2017). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Briggs, Charles L., 1953- Tell me why my children died. Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 9780822361053 9780822361244 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9780822374398 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0822374390 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1515/9780822374398 |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv11qhj45 JSTOR |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |