Representing ebola culture, law, and public discourse about the 2013-2015 West Africa ebola outbreak

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 &q...

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1. Verfasser: Hasian, Marouf Arif (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Madison, Lanham, Maryland Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:viii, 253 Seiten
ISBN:9781611479560
978-1-61147-956-0