The Politics Of Fear: Médecins Sans Frontières And The West African Ebola Epidemic

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, Médecins sans Frontières 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.

• | Author: Michiel Hofman|Sokhieng Au
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190624477
• | ISBN-13: 9780190624477