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Author Sabeti, Pardis, 1975- author.

Title Outbreak culture the Ebola crisis and the next epidemic, with a new preface and epilogue Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi
Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 267 pages) map
Contents Preface to the paperback edition -- Prologue: The people's fighter -- Setting for disaster -- The crucible of outbreak response -- The case for collaboration -- The wavering response -- Distrust in a culture of compassion -- Epidemic of fear -- Investment and accountability -- Ebola's fallout -- Navigating the next epidemic -- Epilogue to the paperback edition
Summary "As we saw with the Ebola outbreak--and the disastrous early handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic--a lack of preparedness, delays, and system-wide problems with the distribution of critical medical supplies can have deadly consequences. Yet after every outbreak, the systems put in place to coordinate emergency responses are generally dismantled. One of America's top biomedical researchers, Dr. Pardis Sabeti, and her Pulitzer Prize-winning collaborator, Lara Salahi, argue that these problems are built into the ecosystem of our emergency responses. With an understanding of the path of disease and insight into political psychology, they show how secrecy, competition, and poor coordination plague nearly every major public health crisis and reveal how much more could be done to safeguard the well-being of caregivers, patients, and vulnerable communities. A work of fearless integrity and unassailable authority, Outbreak Culture seeks to ensure that we make some urgently needed changes before the next pandemic."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Pardis Sabeti is Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Lara Salahi is an award-winning journalist and television producer for multiple outlets, including ABC News
In English
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Subject Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West -- History
Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West -- Epidemiology
Epidemics.
Public health -- Africa, West -- History
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola -- prevention & control
Disease Transmission, Infectious -- prevention & control
Epidemics
epidemics.
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
Ebola virus disease
Epidemics
Public health
SUBJECT Africa, Western -- epidemiology https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000354Q000453
Subject West Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Salahi, Lara, 1986- author.
ISBN 9780674269736
067426973X
9780674269750
0674269756