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Paul Richards - Ebola - 9781783608591 - V9781783608591
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Ebola

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Description for Ebola 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: 144 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 340.

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 draws on his extensive first-hand experience in ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2016
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
African Arguments
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783608591
SKU
V9781783608591
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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
Policymakers involved in responding to global pandemics [should] read this book and to think more seriously about how to develop approaches that really listen to affected communities.
Africa at LSE
The importance of this work for fighting future epidemics cannot be overstated.
African Affairs
The book is useful for any individual teaching or practicing in the ... Read more

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