Representing ebola : culture, law, and public discourse about the 2013-2015 West Africa ebola outbreak /

Representing Ebola addresses the legal and cultural facets of the latest West African Ebola outbreak for both an academic and general audience.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Colección:The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities
Temas:
Ebola virus disease > Prevention.
Ebola virus disease > Treatment.
Human rights.
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
Disease Outbreaks
Communicable Disease Control > legislation & jurisprudence
Human Rights
Social Responsibility
Colonialism
Maladie à virus Ebola > Traitement.
Maladie à virus Ebola.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Africa, West.
Africa, Western
United States
Afrique occidentale.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Arguing about the cultural and legal meanings of the 2013-2015 West African ebola outbreak
  • NGO organizational tales, the discovery of "patient zero", and MSF's stories about the origins of the 2013-2015 West African ebola outbreak
  • The legal and ethical duties that are owed to "contact tracers" and other West African volunteer
  • The saga of Kaci Hickox and the nature, scope, and limits of human rights discourses in ebola contexts
  • The IMF, the World Bank, and debates about the role of political economy in ebola outbreak contexts
  • Anticipating the ebola apocalypse and American mediascapes
  • Liberia's 2014 autoimmunization of the West Point suburb and the return of the colonial cordon sanitaire
  • Belated military humanitarianism and American "ebola exceptionalism" during the West African ebola outbreak, 2014-2015
  • The legal and cultural legacies of the 2013-2015 West African outbreak.

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