Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic
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Ebola : how a people's science helped end an epidemic
（African arguments）
Zed Books, in association with International African Institute, Royal African Society, World Peace Foundation, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-173) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The World's First Ebola Epidemic
2. The Epidemic's Rise and Decline
3. Washing the Dead: Does Culture Spread Ebola?
4. Ebola in Rural Sierra Leone: A Technography
5. Burial Technique
6. Community Responses to Ebola
Conclusion: Strengthening an African People's Science
Postscript
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