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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (263 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611479577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representing EbolaDDC classification:
  • 614.5/7
LOC classification:
  • RC140.5 -- .H375 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Representing Ebola addresses the legal and cultural facets of the latest West African Ebola outbreak for both an academic and general audience.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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