Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare by Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs

Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare

Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs

456 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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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...

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