Stories in the time of cholera : racial profiling during a medical nightmare / Charles L. Briggs with Clara Mantini-Briggs.
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 C...
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