The introduction opens up new perspectives by asking how health inequities are tied to health/communicative inequities, the unequal distribution of rights to produce knowledge about health and illness and circulate it between lay and professional sites of health care. It summarizes events discussed in the book: a mysterious epidemic kills thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest; physicians, healers, and epidemiologists alike fail in their efforts to diagnose and treat it; local leaders form their own team to investigate, recruiting the authors; identification of the symptoms as rabies and the means of transmission as vampire bats; the team's trip to the national capital to take a report to national health authorities and the press. The introduction lays out the book's experimental narrative strategy and analytical interventions into illness and narrative, knowledge production and circulation, the mediatization of health, the work of mourning, and health/communicative inequities and rights.