Ebola

An eye-opening account of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the crucial role of local communities in containing the spread of the disease.




With his decades of experience in rural Sierra Leone, Richards is almost uniquely placed to write this book, which highlights the strong potential at community level for learning about and acting against a deadly disease. We would do well to implement these principles in future emergency responses of all kinds, as well as within long-term development work.

Autorentext
Paul Richards is an anthropologist with over forty-five years' experience of living and working in West Africa. He is emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University in the Netherlandsand and adjunct professor at Njala University in central Sierra Leone. His previous books include No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts (2005).

Klappentext
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018 From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, by this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. So why did outside observers get it so wrong? Paul Richards draws on his extensive first-hand experience in Sierra Leone to argue that the international community's panicky response failed to take account of local expertise and common sense. Crucially, Richards shows that the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in those areas where it supported these initiatives and that it hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. The World's First Ebola Epidemic 2. The Epidemic's Rise and Decline 3. Washing the Dead: Does Culture Spread Ebola? 4. Ebola in Rural Sierra Leone: A Technography 5. Burial Technique 6. Community Responses to Ebola Conclusion: Strengthening an African People's Science Postscript Appendices

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