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Inferno : a doctor's Ebola story / Steven Hatch, M.D.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hatch, Steven, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hatch, Steven, 1969---Health.
- Hatch, Steven.
- Hatch, Steven 1969--Health.
- Hatch, Steven 1969.
- Hatch, Steven, 1969-.
- Ebola virus disease--Africa, West.
- Ebola virus disease.
- Physicians--Massachusetts--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Health.
- Massachusetts.
- West Africa.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola.
- Africa, Western.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola.
- Africa, Western.
- Local Subjects:
- Hatch, Steven 1969--Health.
- Hatch, Steven 1969.
- Physicians--Massachusetts--Biography.
- Ebola virus disease.
- Ebola virus disease--Africa, West.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 303 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies. With little help from the international community and a population ravaged by disease and fear, the war-torn African nation was simply unprepared to deal with the catastrophe. A physician's memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola : how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity. And as Dr. Hatch notes, while Ebola is temporarily under control, it will inevitably re-emerge-as will other plagues, notably the Zika virus, which the World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency. Inferno is a glimpse into the white-hot center of a crisis that will come again. "-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Vestibule
- Preparing for the End of the World
- The Blue World
- Inferno
- The Unbearable Cry
- Behold, a Pale Horse
- Night
- Purgatory
- Mawah.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250085139
- 1250085136
- OCLC:
- 947146032
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