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Representing Ebola : Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak.

Hasian, Marouf A., Jr.

Representing Ebola : Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (263 pages) - The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series . - The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Arguing about the Cultural and the Legal Meanings of the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak -- Chapter 2. NGO Organizational Tales, the Discovery of "Patient Zero," and MSF's Stories about the Origins of the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak -- Chapter 3. The Legal and Ethical Duties That Are Owed to "Contact Tracers" and Other West African Volunteers -- Chapter 4. The Saga of Kaci Hickox and the Nature, Scope, and Limits of Human Rights Discourses in Ebola Contexts -- Chapter 5. The IMF, the World Bank, and Debates about the Role of Political Economy in Ebola Outbreak Contexts -- Chapter 6. Anticipating the Ebola Apocalypse and American Mediascapes -- Chapter 7. Liberia's 2014 Autoimmunization of the West Point Suburb and the Return of the Colonial Cordon Sanitaire -- Chapter 8. Belated Military Humanitarianism and American "Ebola Exceptionalism" during the West African Ebola Outbreak -- Chapter 9. The Legal and Cultural Legacies of the 2013-2015 West African Outbreak -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Representing Ebola addresses the legal and cultural facets of the latest West African Ebola outbreak for both an academic and general audience.

9781611479577


Africa, Western.


Electronic books.

RC140.5 -- .H375 2016eb

614.5/7

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