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

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

Narrators are quoted at length and they step forward as complex individuals, be they cholera victims, vernacular healers, medical doctors, politicians, journalists, scholars, international health workers, priests, or others. [...] beyond that, I take it for granted that this book will be debated by...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of American folklore 2007, Vol.120 (475), p.102-103
1. Verfasser: Klein, Barbro
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cholera
Colloquial language
Death & dying
Globalization
Health services
Ideology
Medical practices
Oil spills
Physicians
Racial profiling
Social activism
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Zusammenfassung:Narrators are quoted at length and they step forward as complex individuals, be they cholera victims, vernacular healers, medical doctors, politicians, journalists, scholars, international health workers, priests, or others. [...] beyond that, I take it for granted that this book will be debated by many thinkers and policy makers who may or may not share the authors' views regarding the disastrous effects of globalization and the violence of modernization.
ISSN:0021-8715
1535-1882
1535-1882
DOI:10.1353/jaf.2007.0015