Representing ebola : culture, law, and public discourse about the 2013-2015 West Africa ebola outbreak /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Subjects:	Ebola virus disease > Prevention. Ebola virus disease > Treatment. Human rights. Ebola virus disease. Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Disease Outbreaks Communicable Disease Control > legislation & jurisprudence Human Rights Social Responsibility Colonialism Africa, West. Africa, Western United States
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9781611479577 1611479576
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Arguing about the cultural and legal meanings of the 2013-2015 West African ebola outbreak
NGO organizational tales, the discovery of "patient zero", and MSF's stories about the origins of the 2013-2015 West African ebola outbreak
The legal and ethical duties that are owed to "contact tracers" and other West African volunteer
The saga of Kaci Hickox and the nature, scope, and limits of human rights discourses in ebola contexts
The IMF, the World Bank, and debates about the role of political economy in ebola outbreak contexts
Anticipating the ebola apocalypse and American mediascapes
Liberia's 2014 autoimmunization of the West Point suburb and the return of the colonial cordon sanitaire
Belated military humanitarianism and American "ebola exceptionalism" during the West African ebola outbreak, 2014-2015
The legal and cultural legacies of the 2013-2015 West African outbreak.

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