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Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare by Charles L. Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs, Clara Mantini-Briggs M.D. Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 0-520-24388-9 / 0520243889 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24388-0 / 9780520243880 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 from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and C |