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Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, was the National Coordinator of the Dengue Fever Program in Venezuela's Ministry of Health and is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. They are coauthors of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare.

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Illustrations  ix

Prologue  xiii

Preface  xvii

Introduction  1

Part I.

1. Reliving the Epidemic: Parents' Perspectives  29

2. When Caregivers Fail: Doctors, Nurses, and Healers Facing an Intractable Disease  76

3. Explaining the Inexplicable in Mukoboina: Epidemiologists, Documents, and the Dialogue That Failed  109

4. Heroes, Bureaucrats, and Millenarian Wisdom: Journalists Cover an Epidemic Conflict  127

Part II.

5. Narratives, Communicative Monopolies, and Acute Health Inequities  159

6. Knowledge Production and Circulation  179

7. Laments, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning  205

8. Biomediatization: Health/Communicative Inequities and Health News  225

9. Toward Health/Communicative Equities and Justice  245

Conclusion  260

Acknowledgments  275

Notes  279

References  287

Index  303

Charles L. Briggs is Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, and the author or coauthor of ten books. 

Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, was the National Coordinator of the Dengue Fever Program in Venezuela's Ministry of Health and is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. They are coauthors of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare.