Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare

by Charles L. Briggs

Book Overview

Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520230310
• ISBN13: 9780520230316
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"