Fevers, feuds, and diamonds Ebola and the ravages of history
Preface: The caregiver's disease --Part I: Ebola hits home.The twenty-fifth epidemic? --Tough calls --Ibrahim's second chance --The two ordeals of Yabom --Interlude I: Down the rabbit hole --Part II: Fevers, feuds, and diamonds.The upper Guinea coast and the world the slaves made -- The gr...
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New York
Picador
2021
New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Preface: The caregiver's disease --Part I: Ebola hits home.The twenty-fifth epidemic? --Tough calls --Ibrahim's second chance --The two ordeals of Yabom --Interlude I: Down the rabbit hole --Part II: Fevers, feuds, and diamonds.The upper Guinea coast and the world the slaves made -- The great scramble and the rise of the Pasteurians --A world at war: The making of a clinical desert --Things fall apart: Civil war and its aftermath --Interlude II: The crisis caravan --Part III: Death and life after Ebola.How Ebola kills: An exercise in social medicine --The silly things and the fever next time --Epilogue: The color of COVID. In 2014, a devastating virus spread through West Africa, affecting Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea and prompting fear and panic around the world. The Ebola crisis resulted in loss of life and economic disruption on a vast scale. Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned physician and anthropologist, experienced this outbreak firsthand, In Fever, Feuds, and Diamonds, Farmer offers the first substantive, on-the-ground account of this fast-moving medical catastrophe. He recounts the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing how racism and colonialism have morphed into present-day threats to public health. Today as the world faces epidemiological challenges on an even larger scale, Farmer insists that we cannot ignore the consequences of 2014 |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben: Seite [527]-619, Index: Seite [627]-653 |
| Beschreibung: | xxviii, 653 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781250800237 978-1-250-80023-7 9780374234324 978-0-374-23432-4 |