Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
$79.60
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 November 2024
Summary
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013-2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The 2013-2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster—28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; a slow and mismanaged international response; and sensationalistic media coverage, seized upon by politicians to justify wrongheaded policy. And yet there were also pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553421 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262553422 |
| Author: | Nicholas G. Evans, Tara C. Smith, Maimuna S. Majumder |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Basic Bioethics |
About The Author
Nicholas G. Evans
Nicholas G. Evans is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of War on All Fronts- A Theory of Health Security Justice.
Tara C. Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, and Epidemiology at Kent State University College of Public Health.
Maimuna S. Majumder is a PhD student in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT and a Research Fellow at the HealthMap Computational Epidemiology Group at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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