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Author(s):	Michiel Hofman, Sokhieng Au

Date:	2017	Format:	PDF	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0190624477
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The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear, not rational planning, appeared to drive many decisions made at population and leadership levels, which in turn brought about a response that was as uneven as it was unprecedented: entire populations were decimated or destroyed, vaccine trials were fast-tracked, health staff died, untested medications were used (or not used) in controversial ways, humanitarian workers returned home to enforced isolation, and military was employed to sometimes disturbing ends.
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, Mdecins sans Frontires 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.
The Politics of Fear provides a primary documentary resource for recounting and learning from the Ebola epidemic. Comprising eleven topic-based chapters and four eyewitness vignettes from both MSF- and non-MSF-affiliated contributors (all of whom have been given access to MSF Ebola archives from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia for research), it aims to provide a politically agnostic account of the defining health event of the 21st century so far, one that will hopefully inform current opinions and future responses.

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