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Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018

From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. By the middle of 2014, the international community was gripped by hysteria. Experts grimly predicted that millions would be infected within months, and a huge international control effort was mounted to contain the virus. Yet paradoxically, by this point the disease was already going into decline in Africa itself. So why did outside observers get it so wrong?

Paul Richards draws on his extensive first-hand experience in Sierra Leone to argue that the international community's panicky response failed to take account of local expertise and common sense. Crucially, Richards shows that the humanitarian response to the disease was most effective in those areas where it supported these initiatives and that it hampered recovery when it ignored or disregarded local knowledge.

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  • Title Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic
  • Author Paul Richards
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Zed Books
  • Publication date 2016-09-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781783608584 / 1783608587
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.46 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Category Consumer Health
  • Library of Congress subjects Humanitarian assistance, Ebola virus disease - Africa
  • Dewey Decimal Code 614.588

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  • Choice, 04/01/2017, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2016, Page 136
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/08/2016, Page 0

About the author

Paul Richards is an anthropologist with over forty-five years' experience of living and working in West Africa. He is emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University in the Netherlandsand and adjunct professor at Njala University in central Sierra Leone. His previous books include No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts (2005).
Paul Richards is an anthropologist with over forty-five years' experience of living and working in West Africa. He is emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University in the Netherlandsand and adjunct professor at Njala University in central Sierra Leone. His previous books include No Peace, No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts (2005).

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