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Stories in the Time of Cholera - Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare (Paperback)
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Stories in the Time of Cholera - Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare (Paperback)
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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,
did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a
bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was
evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from
inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of
public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely
to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials,
and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases
with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was
racialized as officials used anthropological notions of 'culture'
in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the
victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta,
and the 'indigenous ethnic group' who suffered cholera all came to
seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's
health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame.
Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate
across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the
process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health
officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to
epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria,
AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own
outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath
in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in
the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.
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