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Understanding West Africa's Ebola Epidemic : Towards a Political Economy.

A comprehensive critique of the socio-economic issues revealed by the world's deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abdullah, Ibrahim
Otros Autores: Rashid, Ismail
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Zed Books, 2017.
Colección:Security and society in Africa.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Praise for this book; Security and Society in Africa; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; Part One. The Regional History and Origins of Ebola; 1. Ebola and regional history: connections and common experiences; 2. Eurocentric epistemology: questioning the narrative on the epidemic's origin; Part Two. The Neoliberal Affliction: Different Countries, Similar Convulsions; 3. Interpreting the health, social, and political dimensions of the Ebola crisis in Guinea; 4. The political economy of the Ebola epidemic in Liberia.
  • 5. Confronting Ebola with bare hands: Sierra Leone's health sector on the eve of the Ebola epidemicPart Three. Development, Gender, and its Discontents; 6. Structural violence, public health, and the militarization of assistance; 7. "I am a woman. How can I not help?": gender performance and the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone; 8. "God bless WhatsApp": neoliberal Ebola and the struggle for autonomous space in Sierra Leone; Part Four. Transnational Actors and the Politics of Crisis Response; 9. African Union, ECOWAS, and the international political economy of the emergency response to Ebola.
  • 10. The World Health Organization and the Ebola epidemic11. The Ebola epidemic moment in US-(West) Africa relations; 12. UNMEER and the international response to the Ebola epidemic; About the editors and Contributors; Index.