University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 262
Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅛
978-1-61147-956-0 • Hardback • July 2016 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-1-61147-957-7 • eBook • July 2016 • $103.50 • (£80.00)
Marouf A. Hasian Jr. is professor of communication at the University of Utah.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Arguing About the Cultural and Legal Meanings of the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak
Chapter 2: NGO Organizational Tales, the Discovery of “Patient Zero,” and MSF’s Stories about the Origins of the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak
Chapter 3: The Legal and Ethical Duties that are Owed to “Contact Tracers” and Other West African Volunteers
Chapter 4: The Saga of Kaci Hickox and the Nature, Scope, and Limits of Human Rights Discourses in Ebola Contexts
Chapter 5: The IMF, the World Bank, and Debates about the Role of Political Economy in Ebola Outbreak Contexts
Chapter 6: Anticipating the Ebola Apocalypse and American Mediascapes
Chapter 7: Liberia’s 2014 Autoimmunization of the West Point Suburb and the Return of the Colonial Cordon Sanitaire
Chapter 8: Belated Military Humanitarianism and American “Ebola Exceptionalism” During the West African Ebola Outbreak, 2014–2015
Chapter 9: The Legal and Cultural Legacies of the 2013–2015 West African Outbreak
Bibliography
About the Author
An extraordinary, compelling, informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking study, Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013-2015 West African Ebola Outbreak is exceptionally well written, organized and presented. Enhanced with the inclusion of a twelve page Bibliography and a six page Index, Representing Ebola is unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Contemporary African Studies & Medical Studies collections in general, and Ebola Outbreak & Control supplemental studies reading lists in particular. It should be noted for students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Representing Ebola is also available in a Kindle format.
— Midwest Book Review