Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic

The Resource Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic
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Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic
Title remainder
how a people's science helped end an epidemic
Statement of responsibility
Paul Richards
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Language
eng
Summary
In 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea and sending the international community into panic. By 2014, experts were grimly predicting that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, at this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. Why did outside observers get it so wrong? Paul Richards draws on his extensive firsthand experience in Sierra Leone to argue that the international community's alarmed response failed to take account of local expertise and common sense. Crucially, Richards shows that the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in those areas where it supported community initiatives already in place, such as giving local people agency in terms of disposing of bodies. In turn, the international response dangerously hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge
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Cataloging source
NLM
Dewey number
614.5/88
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
QR201.E16
LC item number
R53 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2017 A-446
  • WC 534
Series statement
African arguments

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