Tell me why my children died : rabies, indigenous knowledge, and communicative justice /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Briggs, Charles L., 1953- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Description:	xxi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography Critical global health.
Subject:	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. Rabies -- history. Rabies -- epidemiology. Child. Indians, South American. Healthcare Disparities -- history. Culturally Competent Care -- history. History, 21st Century. Communicable diseases in children. Discrimination in medical care. Epidemics. Venezuela -- epidemiology. Venezuela -- Delta Amacuro. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11559714

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Varying Form of Title:	Rabies, indigenous knowledge, and communicative justice
Other authors / contributors:	Mantini-Briggs, Clara, 1956- author.
ISBN:	9780822361053 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0822361051 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780822361244 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822361248 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822374398 (e-book) 0822374390 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-302) and index.

Table of 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 ancient 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.

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