Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge, and Communicative Justice
- ISBN-10
- 0822374390
- ISBN-13
- 9780822374398
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-05-27
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Authors
- Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs
Description
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 smoke screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide; discuss the Chávez government's hesitant and sometimes ambivalent reactions; and narrate the eventual diagnosis of bat-transmitted rabies. The book provides a new framework for analyzing how the uneven distribution of rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health are wedded at the hip with health inequities. By recounting residents' quest to learn why their children died and documenting their creative approaches to democratizing health, the authors open up new ways to address some of global health's most intractable problems.
Get the book
Similar books
-
What Do We Tell the Children?: Talking to Kids About Death and Dying
By Joseph M. PrimoOne out of seven children will lose a parent before they are 20.
-
The Last Lecture
By Randy PauschIt was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form.
-
Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
By Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle BirknerMeyer. My wife Kat and I tell ourselves we'd love another child for who they are, not for who they replace. We even believe it. But we can't be sure of it—and that keeps us from shutting our eyes, jumping back into the adoption process, ...
-
Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
By Todd BurpoPublished in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson. Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc. Author is represented by the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, ...
-
I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdyJennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy.
-
That's Not What Happened
By Kody KeplingerFrom New York Times bestseller Kody Keplinger comes an astonishing and thought-provoking exploration of the aftermath of tragedy, the power of narrative, and how we remember what we've lost.
-
The Girl Who Owned a City
By O. T.A deadly plague has devastated Earth, killing all the adults.
-
My Uncle Keith Died
By Carol Ann LoehrThe Discussion Guide, written by Julianne Cosentino, will help parents and professionals deal with the type of questions children are likely to ask when their lives have been touched by suicide.
-
Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children
By Bryan MellonieIt helps us to remember. It helps us to understand. Lifetimes . . . a very special, very important book for you and your child. The book that explains—beautifully—that all living things have their own special Lifetimes.
-
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By Alexa Hagerty... My Relatives ' : Gender , Re- ported Speech , and the ( Re ) production of Social Relations in Warao Ritual Wailing , " American Ethnologist 19 , no . 2 ( 1992 ) ; Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini - Briggs , Tell Me Why My Children Died ...