Overview :In Incommunicable Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, raci... Read More
Overview :In Incommunicable Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, raci... Read More
Overview :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 f... Read More
Overview :Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two ch... Read More
Overview :Spanish and English version of Historia de la mina perdida de Juan Mondragón, with editorial matter in English. Includes bibliographical ref... Read More
Overview :Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly... Read More
Overview :This book examines the relationship between media and medicine, considering the fundamental role of news coverage in constructing wider cult... Read More
Overview :A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundatio... Read More