Ebola (eBook)

How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic

Paul Richards (Autor)

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2016
192 Seiten
Zed Books (Verlag)
978-1-78360-861-4 (ISBN)

Infos

An eye-opening account of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the crucial role of local communities in containing the spread of the disease.

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Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, by this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. So why did outside observers get it so wrong?Paul Richards draws on his extensive first-hand experience in Sierra Leone to argue that the international community's panicky response failed to take account of local expertise and common sense. Crucially, Richards shows that the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in those areas where it supported these initiatives and that it hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.

Autor

lt;p>Paul Richards is an anthropologist with over forty-five years’ experience of living and working in West Africa. He is emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University in the Netherlandsand and adjunct professor at Njala University in central Sierra Leone. His previous books include No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts (2005).

Inhalt

• Introduction
• 1. The World’s First Ebola Epidemic
• 2. The Epidemic’s Rise and Decline
• 3. Washing the Dead: Does Culture Spread Ebola?
• 4. Ebola in Rural Sierra Leone: A Technography
• 5. Burial Technique
• 6. Community Responses to Ebola
• Conclusion: Strengthening an African People’s Science
• Postscript
• Appendices

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2016
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 10 Things You Need to Know About Ebola • African Arguments • Andy Dennis • Anna Simon • Behind the Mask • Congo's Environmental Paradox • Congo's Violent Peace • Control of Communicable Diseases Manual • David Quammen • Ebola: The Natural and Human History • Getting Somalia Wrong • Getting to Zero • Hilary Matfess • Kris Berwouts • Louisa Lombard • May Harper • Oliver Johnson • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine • Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine • Richard Preston • Sinead Walsh • State of Rebellion • The Hot Zone • Theodore Trefon • The Politics of Fear • Women and the War on Boko Haram
• ISBN-10: 1-78360-861-7 / 1783608617
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78360-861-4 / 9781783608614