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Zika: From the Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat
Contributor(s): Diniz, Debora (Author)
ISBN: 1786991594     ISBN-13: 9781786991591
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
OUR PRICE:   $113.85  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Disease & Health Issues
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- History | Latin America - South America
Dewey: 614.588
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.84 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
 
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Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book Prize

The Zika virus is devastating lives and communities. Children across the Americas are being born with severe disabilities because of it. Yet during the desolating outbreak, Brazil played host to both the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup, leading many to suspect that the true impact of the virus has been subject to a cover-up of international proportions.

Beginning in the northeast, where the devastation has been most felt, professor of bioethics and award-winning documentary filmmaker Debora Diniz travels across Brazil tracing the virus's origin and spread. Along the journey she meets a host of fearless families, doctors and scientists uncovering the virus's impact on local communities. In doing so Diniz paints a vivid picture of the Zika epidemic, exposing the Brazilian government's complicity in allowing the virus to spread while championing the efforts of local doctors and mothers who, working together, are raising awareness of the virus and fighting for the rights of children affected by Zika.

Contributor Bio(s): Diniz, Debora: - Debora Diniz is a professor of bioethics at the University of Brasilia. She also serves as a member of the Brazilian Ministry of Health's National Network of Specialists on Zika and Related Diseases and as vice-chair of the International Women's Health Coalition's board of directors. She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and her most recent film, Zika draws on the research behind this book.