The politics of fear : Médecins sans Frontières and the West African ebola epidemic /
'The Politics of Fear' is Médecins sans Frontières's commissioned analysis of the politics surrounding the 2014 Ebola epidemic and response. The volume contains 11 topic-based chapters and four eyewitness vignettes from contributors inside and outside MSF.
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Michiel Hofman and Sokhieng Au
- Doctors against borders / João Nunes
- Whose security? / Adia Benton
- vignette 1. A few days in July / Lindis Hurum
- The "humanitarian" response to the ebola epidemic in Guinea / Jean-Francois Caremel, Sylvain Landry B. Faye, and Ramatou Ouedraogo
- The initial international aid response in Sierra Leone / Thomas Kratz
- Dying of the mundane in the time of ebola / Mit Philips
- vignette 2. Treating, suffering, and surviving ebola
- How did Médecins san frontiers negotiate clinical trials of unproven treatments during the 2014-2015 ebola epidemic? / Annette Rid and Annick Antierens
- Failing Dr. Khan / Tim O'Dempsey
- Finding an answer to ebola's greatest challenge / Armand Sprecher
- vignette 3. Children in the ebola treatment centers / Allie Tua Lappia and Patricia Carrick
- Fear and containment / Alice Desclaux, Moustapha Diop, and Stéphane Doyon
- Challenges of instituting effective medevac policies / Duncan McLean
- vignette 4. Returing to the "ebola world" / e Maud Santantonio.
