Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history / Paul Farmer.
Farmer, Paul, 1959- author.
2020
RC140.5 .F37 2020 (Mapit)
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Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history / Paul Farmer.
Author
Farmer, Paul, 1959- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374234324 (hardcover)
0374234329 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
xxviii, 653 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
RC140.5 .F37 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.5/7
614.588
Summary
"Public health expert Paul Farmer describes the historical origins of the 2014 Ebola epidemic"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-619) and index.
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Preface: The caregiver's disease
Part I: Ebola hits home. The twenty-fifth epidemic?
Tough calls
Ibrahim's second chance
The two ordeals of Yabom
Interlude I: Down the rabbit hole
Part II: Fevers, feuds, and diamonds. The upper Guinea coast and the world the slaves made
The great scramble and the rise of the Pasteurians
A world at war: The making of a clinical desert
Things fall apart: Civil war and its aftermath
Interlude II: The crisis caravan
Part III: Death and life after Ebola. How Ebola kills: An exercise in social medicine
The silly things and the fever next time
Epilogue: The color of COVID.

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