Marouf A. Hasian

Representing Ebola

Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Representing Ebola addresses the legal and cultural facets of the latest West African Ebola outbreak for both an academic and general audience.

Produktdetails

• The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9781611479560
• ISBN-10: 1611479568
• Artikelnr.: 44840266

Autorenporträt

By Marouf A. Hasian Jr.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Arguing About the Cultural and Legal Meanings of
the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak Chapter 2: NGO Organizational
Tales, the Discovery of "Patient Zero," and MSF's Stories about the Origins
of the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak Chapter 3: The Legal and
Ethical Duties that are Owed to "Contact Tracers" and Other West African
Volunteers Chapter 4: The Saga of Kaci Hickox and the Nature, Scope, and
Limits of Human Rights Discourses in Ebola Contexts Chapter 5: The IMF, the
World Bank, and Debates about the Role of Political Economy in Ebola
Outbreak Contexts Chapter 6: Anticipating the Ebola Apocalypse and American
Mediascapes Chapter 7: Liberia's 2014 Autoimmunization of the West Point
Suburb and the Return of the Colonial Cordon Sanitaire Chapter 8: Belated
Military Humanitarianism and American "Ebola Exceptionalism" During the
West African Ebola Outbreak, 2014-2015 Chapter 9: The Legal and Cultural
Legacies of the 2013-2015 West African Outbreak Bibliography About the
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