Author: Briggs, Charles L.; & Mantini-Briggs, Clara
Title: Stories in Times of Cholera : Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (2003). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xxvi,430 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet between 1992 and 1993, some 500 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 this report. Why, they ask, did so many die near the end of the 20th century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? " - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Venezuela, Cholera, Public Health, Disease History, Medicine Medical, Epidemiology, Social Sociology, Anthropology, Orinoco Delta, South America