Representing Ebola

Marouf A. Hasian Jr. is professor of communication at the University of Utah.

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Arguing About the Cultural and Legal Meanings of the 2013–2015 West African Ebola OutbreakChapter 2: NGO Organizational Tales, the Discovery of “Patient Zero,” and MSF’s Stories about the Origins of the 2013–2015 West African Ebola OutbreakChapter 3: The Legal and Ethical Duties that are Owed to “Contact Tracers” and Other West African VolunteersChapter 4: The Saga of Kaci Hickox and the Nature, Scope, and Limits of Human Rights Discourses in Ebola ContextsChapter 5: The IMF, the World Bank, and Debates about the Role of Political Economy in Ebola Outbreak ContextsChapter 6: Anticipating the Ebola Apocalypse and American MediascapesChapter 7: Liberia’s 2014 Autoimmunization of the West Point Suburb and the Return of the Colonial Cordon SanitaireChapter 8: Belated Military Humanitarianism and American “Ebola Exceptionalism” During the West African Ebola Outbreak, 2014–2015Chapter 9: The Legal and Cultural Legacies of the 2013–2015 West African OutbreakBibliographyAbout 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.