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By Alex M. Nading
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9430-2
... mediation social media photography epidemic narrative indexicality ...
Book Chapter

By Alex M. Nading
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060864-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9430-2
... photography, and storytelling become essential tools in environmental politics. mediation social media photography epidemic narrative indexicality ...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374398-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... 500 deaths to an “indigenous culture” whose focus on spirits rather than microbes supposedly precluded participation in biomedicine. When the 2007–2008 rabies epidemic began, Conrado and Enrique Moraleda decided to confront this narrative by producing knowledge that they themselves could take...
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By Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... focus on spirits rather than microbes supposedly precluded participation in biomedicine. When the 2007–2008 rabies epidemic began, Conrado and Enrique Moraleda decided to confront this narrative by producing knowledge that they themselves could take to the national and international press...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374398-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... 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...
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By Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
...I This chapter focuses on families who lost children to the mysterious epidemic. In Mukoboina, 10 percent of the population of around eighty died. Parents collectively told testimonios , stories that recounted their frenetic efforts to find a doctor, nurse, or healer who could save the life...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374398-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... This chapter focuses on families who lost children to the mysterious epidemic. In Mukoboina, 10 percent of the population of around eighty died. Parents collectively told testimonios , stories that recounted their frenetic efforts to find a doctor, nurse, or healer who could save the life...
Published: 01 January 1999
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396963-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9696-3
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By Everett Yuehong Zhang
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 11 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375746-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7574-6
... Drawing on ancient Chinese thought and Western thought as they weave through narratives of cases, stories, and personal encounters, chapter 7 redefines potency as life’s fullness. Potency refers, first, to the Chinese notion of the fullness of seminal essence, and, second, to the Western idea...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 27 May 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374398-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7439-8
... epidemic created an epidemiological apparatus that structured and policed the pervasive indigenous/nonindigenous divide in Delta Amacuro. The Bolivarian Revolution sparked effective national efforts to ameliorate health inequities, but health/communicative inequities largely remained unaddressed...
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By Everett Yuehong Zhang
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 11 February 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7574-6
... medicine the kidney Viagra biomedicine cosmopolitanism Drawing on ancient Chinese thought and Western thought as they weave through narratives of cases, stories, and personal encounters, chapter 7 redefines potency as life’s fullness. Potency refers, first, to the Chinese notion of the fullness...