Outbreak culture : the Ebola crisis and the next epidemic / Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi.
By: Sabeti, Pardis [author].
Contributor(s): Salahi, Lara [author].
Material type: BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xviii, 255 pages : map, illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674976115 (hardback).Subject(s): Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West -- History | Ebola virus disease -- Africa, West -- Epidemiology | Communicable diseases | Public health -- Africa, West -- History | DDC classification: 616.91800966Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An award-winning genetic researcher who helped contain the Ebola outbreak and a prize-winning journalist reveal what it will take to prevent the next pandemic from spiraling out of control.
As we saw with our response to Ebola and Zika-and are seeing now with the disastrous early handling of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak-a lack of preparedness, delays in action, and large-scale system-wide problems with the distribution of critical medical resources can result in lost lives.
Outbreak Culture examines each phase of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa-one of the largest and deadliest epidemics to date-and identifies factors that prevented key information from reaching physicians. Drawing insights from clinical workers, data collectors, organizational experts, and public health researchers, Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi expose a fractured system that failed to gather and share knowledge of the virus and ensure timely containment. The authors describe how much more could have been done by global medical and political organizations to safeguard the well-being of caregivers, patients, and communities affected by this devastating outbreak and they outline changes that are urgently needed to ensure a more effective coordinated response to the next epidemic.
Secrecy, competition, and poor coordination plague nearly every major public health crisis-and we are seeing their deadly consequences play out again. A work of fearless integrity and unassailable authority, Outbreak Culture seeks to change the culture of responders.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting for disaster -- Outbreak culture -- Coveted data, research restricted -- The wavering response -- Rooted in compassion, weeded in conspiracy -- Epidemic of fear -- Investment and accountability -- Ebola's fallout -- Navigating the next epidemic.
An award-winning genetic researcher and a tenacious journalist examine each phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the largest and deadliest of its kind. Their postmortem identifies factors that kept key information from reaching doctors, complicated the government's response to the crisis, and left responders unprepared for the next outbreak.-- Provided by publisher.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acronyms and Abbreviations (p. ix)
- Preface (p. xi)
- Map of West Africa (p. xix)
- Prologue: The People's Fighter (p. 1)
- 1 Setting for Disaster (p. 21)
- 2 The Crucible of Outbreak Response (p. 37)
- 3 The Case for Collaboration (p. 62)
- 4 The Wavering Response (p. 84)
- 5 Distrust in a Culture of Compassion (p. 102)
- 6 Epidemic of Fear (p. 124)
- 7 Investment and Accountability (p. 142)
- 8 Ebola's Fallout (p. 163)
- 9 Navigating the Next Epidemic (p. 179)
- Epilogue (p. 202)
- Notes (p. 209)
- Acknowledgments (p. 241)
- Index (p. 243)