Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice

by Charles L. Briggs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361248
• ISBN13: 9780822361244
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"