Stories in the Time of Cholera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stories in the Time of Cholera write by Charles L. Briggs. This book was released on 2003-01-16. Stories in the Time of Cholera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.
Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) write by Gabriel García Márquez. This book was released on 2020-10-27. Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
Africa in the Time of Cholera
Africa in the Time of Cholera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa in the Time of Cholera write by Myron Echenberg. This book was released on 2011-02-28. Africa in the Time of Cholera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually - Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's cases and deaths - and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering caused is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.
Mexico in the Time of Cholera
Mexico in the Time of Cholera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexico in the Time of Cholera write by Donald Fithian Stevens. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Mexico in the Time of Cholera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This captivating study tells Mexico’s best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives. Parish archives and other sources tell us human stories about the intimate decisions, hopes, aspirations, and religious commitments of Mexican men and women as they made their way through the transition from the Viceroyalty of New Spain to an independent republic. In this volume Stevens shows how Mexico assumed a new place in Atlantic history as a nation coming to grips with modernization and colonial heritage, helping us to understand the paradox of a country with a reputation for fervent Catholicism that moved so quickly to disestablish the Church.
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Autumn of the Patriarch write by Gabriel García Márquez. This book was released on 1996. The Autumn of the Patriarch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No Marketing Blurb
