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Ebola: How a People´s Science Helped End an Epidemic
Paul Richards
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Description for Ebola: How a People´s Science Helped End an Epidemic
Paperback. An eye-opening account of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the crucial role of local communities in containing the spread of the disease. Series: African Arguments. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11 figures, 1 index, 8 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1HFD; MJCJ; MMFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 214.
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, by this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. So why did outside observers get it so wrong? Paul Richards ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, by this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. So why did outside observers get it so wrong? Paul Richards ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
African Arguments
Condition
New
Weight
214g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783608584
SKU
V9781783608584
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About Paul Richards
Paul Richards is an anthropologist with over forty-five years' experience of living and working in West Africa. He is emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University in the Netherlandsand and adjunct professor at Njala University in central Sierra Leone. His previous books include No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts (2005).
Reviews for Ebola: How a People´s Science Helped End an Epidemic
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 'Represents the first serious attempt to grapple with some of the practical as well as epistemological questions posed by the local response to the outbreak...Offers important insights, especially concerning the central issue of burial practices, one of the epidemic's main routes of infection.' The Economist ... Read more