Tell me why my children died : rabies, indigenous knowledge, and communicative justice / Charles L. Briggs & Clara Mantini-Briggs.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

xxi, 319 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) and index.

Reliving the epidemic: parents' perspectives -- When caregivers fail: doctors, nurses, and healers facing an intractable disease -- Explaining the inexplicable in Mukoboina: epidemiologists, documents, and the dialogue that failed -- Heroes, bureaucrats, and millenarian wisdom: journalists cover an epidemic conflict -- Narratives, communicative monopolies, and acute health inequities -- Knowledge production and circulation -- Laments, psychoanalysis, and the work of mourning -- Biomediatization: health/communicative inequities and health news -- Toward health/communicative equities and justice.