Representing ebola culture, law, and public discourse about the 2013-2015 West Africa ebola outbreak / Marouf A. Hasian Jr.
| Author/creator | Hasian, Marouf Arif |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr., author. Representing ebola Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016] 9781611479560 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016013710 |
| ISBN | 9781611479577 (Electronic) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |