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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History

Paul Farmer

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Description:The public health legend Paul Farmer offers a provocative account of the 2014 Ebola crisis and why it occurredIn 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned doctor and anthropologist, experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand—Partners in Health, the organization he founded, was among the international responders. In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he offers the first substantive account of this frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. In vibrant prose, Farmer tells the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing why the medical response was slow and insufficient. Rebutting misleading claims about the origins of Ebola and why it spread so rapidly in 2014, he traces West Africa’s chronic health failures back to centuries of exploitation and injustice; the region’s health woes, he shows, paradoxically worsened under formal colonial rule, when disease containment was a priority but care was not.This thorough and hopeful narrative is a definitive work of reportage, history, and advocacy, and a crucial intervention in public-health discussions around the world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. To get started finding Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The public health legend Paul Farmer offers a provocative account of the 2014 Ebola crisis and why it occurredIn 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it?Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned doctor and anthropologist, experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand—Partners in Health, the organization he founded, was among the international responders. In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he offers the first substantive account of this frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. In vibrant prose, Farmer tells the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing why the medical response was slow and insufficient. Rebutting misleading claims about the origins of Ebola and why it spread so rapidly in 2014, he traces West Africa’s chronic health failures back to centuries of exploitation and injustice; the region’s health woes, he shows, paradoxically worsened under formal colonial rule, when disease containment was a priority but care was not.This thorough and hopeful narrative is a definitive work of reportage, history, and advocacy, and a crucial intervention in public-health discussions around the world.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History. To get started finding Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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