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Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)

Full title: Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
ISBN: 9780822361053
ISBN 10: 0822361051
Authors: Briggs, Charles L. Mantini-Briggs, Clara
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Edition: Illustrated
Num. pages: 344
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2016

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Synopsis

Reliving The Epidemic: Parents' Perspectives -- When Caregivers Fail: Doctors, Nurses, And Healers Facing An Intractable Disease -- Explaining The Inexplicable In Mukoboina: Epidemiologists, Documents, And The Dialogue That Failed -- Heroes, Bureaucrats, And Millenarian Wisdom: Journalists Cover An Epidemic Conflict -- Narratives, Communicative Monopolies, And Acute Health Inequities -- Knowledge Production And Circulation -- Laments, Psychoanalysis, And The Work Of Mourning -- Biomediatization: Health/communicative Inequities And Health News -- Toward Health/communicative Equities And Justice. Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-briggs. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 287-302) And Index.