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Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | London, England : Zed Books, 2016 |
| Schriftenreihe: | African arguments
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| ISBN: | 9781350219779 1350219770 9781783608607 1783608609 9781783608591 1783608595 1783608587 9781783608584 9781783608614 1783608617 9781783608621 1783608625 |
| Anmerkungen: | Published in association with the International African Institute; Royal African Society; World Peace Foundation Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-173) and index Also published in print. |
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| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350219779 |
| wird zitiert von: | 131 Titel im Zitationsindex COCI |
| Anmerkung: | Also published in print. |
| Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- The world's first Ebola epidemic -- The epidemic's rise and decline -- Washing the dead : does culture spread Ebola? -- Ebola in rural Sierra Leone : a technography -- Burial technique -- Community responses to Ebola -- Conclusion : strengthening an African people's science -- Postscript -- Appendices : evidence and testimony from Ebola-affected community members. 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 |
| Medientyp: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |