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In the time of Ebola : youth, family, and emergency in Sierra Leone / Jonah Lipton.
Penn Museum Library RC140.5 .L57 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lipton, Jonah, 1988- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sierra Leone.
- Ebola virus disease--Social aspects--Sierra Leone.
- Ebola virus disease.
- Epidemics--Social aspects--Sierra Leone--History--21st century.
- Epidemics.
- Epidemics--Economic aspects--Sierra Leone--History--21st century.
- Epidemics--Africa, West--History--21st century.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--psychology.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--economics.
- Ebolavirus.
- epidemics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sierra Leone.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--psychology.
- Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--economics.
- Ebolavirus.
- Epidemics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In the Time of Ebola is a firsthand account and anthropological study of the 2014-16 West African Ebola epidemic, centering on the residents of a city that became swept up in the emergency. The book tells the stories of young men and women over a period or seven years, revealing what the Ebola epidemic actually looked like on the ground, as well as exploring its causes, meanings, and legacies."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Marginalized cosmopolitans
- Hazard pay
- Home truths
- Extraordinary ordinary
- Black and white death
- Anthropology in crisis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lipton, Jonah, 1988- In the time of Ebola.
- ISBN:
- 9781501778094
- 1501778099
- 9781501778100
- 1501778102
- OCLC:
- 1423685823
- Publisher Number:
- 90100689724
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