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The Politics of Fear
Medecins sans Frontieres and the West African Ebola Epidemic
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The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear, not rational planning, appeared to drive many decisions made at population and leadership levels, which in turn brought about a response that was as uneven as it was unprecedented: entire populations were decimated or destroyed, vaccine trials were fast-tracked, health
staff died, untested medications were used (or not used) in controversial ways, humanitarian workers returned home to enforced isolation, and military was employed to sometimes disturbing ends.

The epidemic revealed serious fault lines at all levels of theory and practice of global public health: national governments were shown to be helpless and unprepared for calamity at this scale; the World Health Organization was roundly condemned for its ineffectiveness; the US quietly created its own African CDC a year after the epidemic began. Amid such chaos, Medecins sans Frontieres was forced to act with unprecdented autonomy - and amid great criticism - in responding to the
disease, taking unprecedented steps in deploying services and advocating for international aid.

The Politics of Fear provides a primary documentary resource for recounting and learning from the Ebola epidemic. Comprising eleven topic-based chapters and four eyewitness vignettes from both MSF- and non-MSF-affiliated contributors (all of whom have been given access to MSF Ebola archives from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia for research), it aims to provide a politically agnostic account of the defining health event of the 21st century so far, one that will hopefully inform
current opinions and future responses.


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Contents

Contributors
Preface, Christopher Stokes
Introduction, Michiel Hofman and Sokhieng Au

The Response

1. Doctors against Borders: Medecins sans Frontieres and Global Health Security, Joao Nunes
2. Whose security? Militarization and securitization during West Africa's Ebola Outbreak, Adia Benton

Vignette 1. A few days in July, Lindis Hurum

The System

3. The 'humanitarian' response to the Ebola epidemic in Guinea. Between routine and exceptions. Jean-Francois Caremel, Sylvain Landry B. Faye and Ramatou Ouedraogo
4. The initial international aid response in Sierra Leone - A viewpoint from the field, Thomas Kratz
5. Dying of the Mundane in the Time of Ebola, Mit Philips

Vignette 2. Treating, Suffering, and Surviving Ebola: The Story of Prince, Prince Lahai and Patricia Carrick

Patients

6. How did Medecins sans Frontieres Negotiate Clinical Trials of Unproven Treatments during the West African Ebola Epidemic? Annette Rid and Annick Antierens
7. Saving Dr. Khan, Timothy O'Dempsey
8. Finding an Answer to Ebola's Greatest Challenge, Armand Sprecher

Vignette 3. Children in the Ebola Treatment Centers, Patricia Carrick and Allie Tua Lappia

Containment

9. Fear and Containment. Contact Follow up Perceptions and Social Containment in Senegal and Guinea, Alice Desclaux, Moustapha Diop, and Stephane Doyon.
10. Challenges of Instituting Effective Medevac Policies, Duncan McLean

Vignette 4. Returning to the "Ebola world", Maud Santantonio


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780190624477
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Publication date: April, 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 540g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues, Infectious Diseases, Public Health

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