Tell Me Why My Children Died - 9780822361244

Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rainforest between 2007 and 2008. In this path-breaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers, and epidemiologists; detail how journalists first created a smokescreen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Chávez government's hesitant and sometimes ambivalent reactions; and narrate the eventual diagnosis of bat-transmitted rabies. The book provides a new framework for analyzing how the uneven distribution of rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health are wedded at the hip with health inequities. By recounting residents' quest to learn why their children died and documenting their creative approaches to democratizing health, the authors open up new ways to address some of global health's most intractable problems.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Tell Me Why My Children Died
• Sottotitolo: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
• Lingua: English
• Autori :  Briggs Charles L., Mantini Clara Briggs
• Editore: Duke Univ Pr
• Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 27 Maggio '16
• Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
• Argomenti :  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
• Pagine: 319
• Dimensioni mm: 234 x 152 x 19
• ISBN-10: 0822361248
• EAN-13: 9780822361244