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Titel:Ebola :
how a people's science helped end an epidemic /
Von: Paul Richards.
Person: Richards, Paul
1945 May 14-
author.
Hauptverfasser: Richards, Paul, 1945 May 14- (VerfasserIn)
Vertrieb:[London, England] :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2021
Format: Regierungsdokument Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London, England : Zed Books, 2016.
Schriftenreihe:African arguments.
Schlagwörter:
Medienzugang:https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350219779?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Published in association with the International African Institute; Royal African Society; World Peace Foundation.
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 180 Seiten) : illustrations, maps.
Also published in print.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-173) and index.
ISBN:9781350219779
Zugangsbedingungen:Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.