| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Representing Ebola addresses the legal and cultural facets of the latest West African Ebola outbreak for both an academic and general audience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Ebola virus disease -- Prevention
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Ebola virus disease -- Treatment
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Human rights.
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Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
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Disease Outbreaks
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Communicable Disease Control -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Human Rights
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Social Responsibility
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Colonialism
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, West. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001688
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Africa, Western https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000354 |
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016013710 |
| ISBN |
9781611479577 |
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1611479576 |
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