Tell me why my children died : rabies, indigenous knowledge, and communicative justice / Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-Briggs.

  • Briggs, Charles L., 1953-
Date:
2016
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Physical description

xxi, 319 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index.

Contents

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.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FF.792.AA10
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780822361053
  • 0822361051
  • 9780822361244
  • 0822361248