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 |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West -- History
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Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West -- Epidemiology
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Epidemics.
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Public health -- Africa, West -- History
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Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola -- prevention & control
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Disease Transmission, Infectious -- prevention & control
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Epidemics
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epidemics.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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Ebola virus disease
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Epidemics
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Public health
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SUBJECT |
Africa, Western -- epidemiology https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000354Q000453 |
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West Africa
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Salahi, Lara, 1986- author.
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ISBN |
9780674269736 |
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067426973X |
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9780674269750 |
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0674269756 |
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