Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic
Richards, Paul, 1945 May 14-2016
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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.
Main title:
Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic / Paul Richards.
Author:
Richards, Paul, 1945 May 14-, authorInternational African Institute, associated with workRoyal African Society, associated with workWorld Peace Foundation, associated with work
Imprint:
London : Zed Books, 2016.
Collation:
xii, 180 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22 cm.
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Notes:
Published in association with the International African Institute; Royal African Society; World Peace Foundation.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783608584 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
614.588614.588 RIC
Language:
English
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BRN:
79354
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