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Ebola

- How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic
Af: Paul Richards Engelsk Paperback

Ebola

- How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic
Af: Paul Richards Engelsk Paperback
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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 Sierra Leone to argue that the international community’s panicky 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 these initiatives and that it hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.

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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 Sierra Leone to argue that the international community’s panicky 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 these initiatives and that it hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 192
ISBN-13: 9781783608584
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1783608587
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 2016
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 142mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 2016
Forfatter(e): Paul Richards
Forfatter(e) Paul Richards


Kategori Smitsomme sygdomme. Infektioner


ISBN-13 9781783608584


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 192


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 142mm


Højde 216mm


Udg. Dato 15 sep 2016


Oplagsdato 15 sep 2016


Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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