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 some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520243889
• ISBN13: 9780520243880
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"