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Representing ebola : culture, law, and public discourse about the 2013-2015 West Africa ebola outbreak / / Marouf A. Hasian Jr



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Autore: Hasian Marouf A., Jr. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Representing ebola : culture, law, and public discourse about the 2013-2015 West Africa ebola outbreak / / Marouf A. Hasian Jr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina: 614.5/7
Soggetto topico: Ebola virus disease - Treatment
Ebola virus disease - Prevention
Soggetto geografico: Africa, Western
United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Arguing about the Cultural and the Legal Meanings of the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak; Chapter 2. NGO Organizational Tales, the Discovery of "Patient Zero," and MSF's Stories about the Origins of the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak; Chapter 3. The Legal and Ethical Duties That Are Owed to "Contact Tracers" and Other West African Volunteers; Chapter 4. The Saga of Kaci Hickox and the Nature, Scope, and Limits of Human Rights Discourses in Ebola Contexts
Chapter 5. The IMF, the World Bank, and Debates about the Role of Political Economy in Ebola Outbreak ContextsChapter 6. Anticipating the Ebola Apocalypse and American Mediascapes; Chapter 7. Liberia's 2014 Autoimmunization of the West Point Suburb and the Return of the Colonial Cordon Sanitaire; Chapter 8. Belated Military Humanitarianism and American "Ebola Exceptionalism" during the West African Ebola Outbreak; Chapter 9. The Legal and Cultural Legacies of the 2013-2015 West African Outbreak; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: Representing Ebola addresses the legal and cultural facets of the latest West African Ebola outbreak for both an academic and general audience.
Titolo autorizzato: Representing ebola  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61147-957-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798309603321
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Serie: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.