by Abdulmelik, Semiha, Amos, Julia, Bah, Chernoh Alpha M., Barry, Alpha Amadou Bano, Batty, Fodei, Gezmu, Tefera, Howard, Allen M., Ibrahim, Aisha Fofana, Kamara, Abou Bakarr, Kieh, George Klay, Turshen, Meredeth
fromSecurity and society in Africa
A comprehensive critique of the socio-economic issues revealed by the world's deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus. From 2013 to 2015, over eleven thousand people across West Africa lost their lives to the deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. Crucially, this epide…
The average individual is far more likely to die in a car accident than from a communicable diseaseỷet we are still much more fearful of the epidemic. Even at our most level-headed, the thought of an epidemic can inspire terror. As Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxie…
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. investigates thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the 2014 Ebola outbreak to challenge the dominant hypothesis that epidemics invariably provoke hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimising b…
The author, a Stanford biologist reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics. He discusses the complex interactions between humans and viruses, and the threat from viruses that jump from species to species. He…
"Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience with widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine and in this volume, a team of distingui…
"Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience with widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine and in this volume, a team of distingui…
"Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience with widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine and in this volume, a team of distingui…
Jeder, der epidemiologische Studien plant, organisiert oder auswertet, muss quantitativ-statistische Methoden nutzen. Wer solche Untersuchungen aus erster Hand verstehen und beurteilen will, braucht dafür statistische und methodische Kenntnisse. So manche Kontroverse über epidem…
