1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164928503321

Titolo

The politics of fear : Médecins sans Frontières and the West African ebola epidemic / / edited by Michiel Hofman and Sokhieng Au

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-062449-3

0-19-062450-7

0-19-062448-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 pages)

Disciplina

362.19692

Soggetti

Ebola virus disease - Africa, West

Ebola virus disease - Social aspects - Africa, West

Ebola virus disease - Political aspects - Africa, West

Epidemics - Social aspects - Africa, West

Epidemics - Political aspects - Africa, West

Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology

Epidemics

Social Conditions

Politics

Africa, West Social conditions

Africa, Western epidemiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Politics of Fear' is Médecins sans Frontières's commissioned analysis of the politics surrounding the 2014 Ebola epidemic and response. The volume contains 11 topic-based chapters and four eyewitness vignettes from contributors inside and outside MSF.