More Than a Health Crisis
Securitization and the US Response to the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2023
Summary
How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives—establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response to epidemics such as COVID-19.
In 2014 and 2015, the viral Ebola epidemic in West Africa inspired breathless US media coverage and became the subject of heated public debate over just how to understand the security issue that the outbreak presented. Was it a security concern because of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262545693 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262545691 |
| Author: | Jessica Kirk |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Jessica Kirk
Jessica Kirk is Research Fellow in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Brisbane. She is also Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project on COVID-19 and the politics of expertise, and her work has appeared in such journals as International Studies Quarterly and Global Studies Quarterly.
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