Outbreak Culture : : The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic /

Outbreak Culture : : The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic / / Pardis Sabeti, Lara Salahi.

An award-winning genetic researcher and a tenacious journalist examine each phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the largest and deadliest of its kind. Their postmortem identifies factors that kept key information from reaching doctors, complicated the government’s response to the crisis, and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Sabeti, Pardis,
Salahi, Lara,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Map of West Africa
  • Prologue: The People’s Fighter
  • 1. Setting for Disaster
  • 2. The Crucible of Outbreak Response
  • 3. The Case for Collaboration
  • 4. The Wavering Response
  • 5. Distrust in a Culture of Compassion
  • 6. Epidemic of Fear
  • 7. Investment and Accountability
  • 8. Ebola’s Fallout
  • 9. Navigating the Next Epidemic
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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