EBOLAWEB » Ebola fieldnotes | EBOLAWEB http://www.ebolaweb.org Selected papers on Ebola Virus outbreak and its Responses Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:13:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.24 Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=312 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=312#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:35:35 +0000 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=312
By , in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnotes, October 31, 2014.

A French version of this piece was originally published in Libération on 18 September 2014.

“It is useless to laboriously interpret disaster movies in terms of their relation to an ‘objective’ social crisis or even to an ‘objective’ phantasm of disaster,” wrote Jean Baudrillard in 1981. “It is in another sense that (…) it is the social itself that, in contemporary discourse, is organised along the lines of a disaster-movie script.” In its Saturday, 13 September edition, the French daily Libération devoted several columns of its paper to the analysis of apocalyptic films, which reflect our anxiety in the face of pandemics. The Ebola virus epidemic which is raging in several western African countries calls for a more radical critique.

 

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]]> http://www.ebolaweb.org/?feed=rss2&p=312 0 From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=305 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=305#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:56:35 +0000 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=305 By and , published in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnote, October 29, 2014.

Mariatu

On a steamy mid-August afternoon, Mariatu Kargbo, a Sierra Leonian expat residing in Beijing, stood at the front of a packed hotel ballroom. As reported by Xinhua News (新华网), Kargbo addressed the crowd, saying:

I know everyone has come because they would like to support us, but I really didn’t know that today so many people would come, thank you everyone! What we’ve done today is to say to Ebola ‘You cannot go forward, you need to stop’!

 

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]]> http://www.ebolaweb.org/?feed=rss2&p=305 0 Somatosphere’s Web Roundup: Ebola Update http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=260 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=260#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:29:48 +0000 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=260 By

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A great deal has happened since the first Web Roundup on Ebola. The epidemic has spread both in West Africa and globally, and material about Ebola has spread throughout the web. According to the CDC, as of October 22, a total of 9911 cases of Ebola have been reported, primarily in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone (map of new cases), and there have been an estimated 4546 deaths. WHO has declared an end to the outbreak in Nigeria and Senegal, but there are now cases in Europe and North America. In Spain and the United States, there have been local cases of viral transmission within healthcare facilities.

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]]> http://www.ebolaweb.org/?feed=rss2&p=260 0 Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain – Somatosphere http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=133 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=133#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:04:34 +0000 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=133 By

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A few months ago, the independent Spanish online newspaper El Diario published a cartoon entitled “Ebola in Madrid”. It showed a health worker, camouflaged in a green protection suit, wearing a white head shield and goggles, leaning over a patient almost completely hidden under the sheets of the hospital bed. The huge hospital room is deserted and empty, virtually looted. It resembles an evacuated department store, but depicts a worn down, abandoned hospital floor. The health worker addresses the patient, saying: “Now the most important thing is that you get calm and relax. We should not disregard the possibility that the virus dies from boredom”.

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The cartoon was published in the first week of August 2014, when a Spanish missionary, sick with Ebola, was repatriated from Liberia to his home country. It sarcastically staged two things: the helplessness of health professionals against a deadly disease in the absence of an effective treatment; and a decaying Spanish health care system, which is pictured as literally falling apart, ill prepared to care for those suffering from a highly contagious and deadly disease.

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]]> http://www.ebolaweb.org/?feed=rss2&p=133 0 Somatosphere’s series: Ebola fieldnotes http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=39 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=39#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:12:23 +0000 http://www.ebolaweb.org/?p=39 Somatosphere

Caring as existential insecurity: quarantine, care, and human insecurity in the Ebola crisis

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Ebola 2014. Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster

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From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic

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Web Roundup: Ebola Update

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Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain

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On gloves, rubber and the spatio-temporal logics of global health

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Ebola and emergency anthropology: The view from the “global health slot”

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Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic

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Race and the immuno-logics of Ebola response in West Africa

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An Emerging Infectious Disease Perspective, Inter Alia

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Notes from Case Zero: Anthropology in the time of Ebola

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