ISBN:
9780822374398
,
0822374390
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xxi, 319 pages)
Series Statement:
Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Briggs, Charles L., 1953 - Tell me why my children died
DDC:
362.196900987/62
Keywords:
Warao children Diseases 21st century
;
History
;
Epidemics History 21st century
;
Discrimination in medical care History 21st century
;
Communicable diseases in children History 21st century
;
Warao children ; Diseases ; Venezuela ; Delta Amacuro ; History ; 21st century
;
Epidemics ; Venezuela ; Delta Amacuro ; History ; 21st century
;
Discrimination in medical care ; Venezuela ; Delta Amacuro ; History ; 21st century
;
Communicable diseases in children ; Venezuela ; Delta Amacuro ; History ; 21st century
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Venezuela
;
Warrau
;
Kindersterblichkeit
;
Epidemie
;
Tollwut
;
Gesundheitswesen
;
Ungerechtigkeit
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
DOI:
10.1215/9780822374398
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822374398
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822374398
Permalink