| Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice Contributor(s): Briggs, Charles L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822361051 ISBN-13: 9780822361053 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues - Social Science | Indigenous Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2015038469 |
| Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.35 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking 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 smoke screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Ch vez 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. |
