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 InfoMadison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Description1 online resource.
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SeriesThe 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Hasian, Marouf Arif, Jr., author. Representing ebola Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016] 9781611479560
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016013710
ISBN9781611479577 (Electronic)

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