Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Prologue xiii
5. Preface xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I
8. 1. Reliving the Epidemic: Parents’ Perspectives 29
9. 2. When Caregivers Fail: Doctors, Nurses, and Healers Facing an Intractable Disease 76
10. 3. Explaining the Inexplicable in Mukoboina: Epidemiologists, Documents, and the Dialogue That Failed 109
11. 4. Heroes, Bureaucrats, and Ancient Wisdom: Journalists Cover an Epidemic Conflict 127
12. Part II
13. 5. Narratives, Communicative Monopolies, and Acute Health Inequities 159
14. 6. Knowledge Production and Circulation 179
15. 7. Laments, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning 205
16. 8. Biomediatization: Health/Communicative Inequities and Health News 225
17. 9. Toward Health/Communicative Equities and Justice 245
18. Conclusion 260
19. Acknowledgments 275
20. Notes 279
21. References 287
22. Index 303