Ebola
how a people's science helped end an epidemic
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Word Count
45,000 words, Guess
Page Count
180 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27219003M
- ISBN-139781783608591
- ISBN-101783608595
- OCLC Control Number945390731
- OCLC Control Number1241540150
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- Internet Archiveebolahowpeopless0000rich
Classifications
- DDC614.5/88
- LCCQR201.E16 R53 2016
- LCCQR201.E16
Description
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.
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