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

November 25, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Society & Culture

Published by Sung-Joon Park and René Umlauf, in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnotes, November 24, 2014.   In August of this year, when the Ebola outbreak escalated in Liberia and a state of emergency had been declared for the country, Fatu Kekula, a young Liberian nursing student, improvised personal protective equipment (PPE) …

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Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster

October 31, 2014 | Filed under: Africa, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

By Guillaume Lachenal, 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 …

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

October 30, 2014 | Filed under: Countries, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Peer reviewed, Sierra Leone

By Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang, published in Somatosphere’s Ebola fieldnote, October 29, 2014. 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 …

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Somatosphere’s Web Roundup: Ebola Update

October 24, 2014 | Filed under: Biology/Virology, Biomedicine/Clinical, English, Epidemiology & Public Health, France, Guinea, Investigative journalism, Liberia, Nigeria, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, RDC, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture, Spain, Working papers

By Sara M Bergstresser This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes   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 …

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Against Sick States: Ebola Protests in Austerity Spain – Somatosphere

October 23, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Politics & Economy, Society & Culture, Spain, Uncategorized

By Janina Kehr This article is part of the series: Ebola fieldnotes 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 …

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Somatosphere’s series: Ebola fieldnotes

October 20, 2014 | Filed under: Countries, English, Peer reviewed, Society & Culture

Caring as existential insecurity: quarantine, care, and human insecurity in the Ebola crisis By Sung-Joon Park and René Umlauf Ebola 2014. Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster By Guillaume Lachenal From the dragon’s perspective: an initial report on China’s response to the unfolding Ebola epidemic By Emilio Dirlikov and Qiuyu Jiang …

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Ebola in Perspective – Cultural Anthropology Journal

October 14, 2014 | Filed under: English, Epidemiology & Public Health, Guinea, Liberia, Peer reviewed, Politics & Economy, Sierra Leone, Society & Culture

Since early 2014, the international coverage of Africa has been dominated by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Much of that coverage represents the region as helpless and hopeless, a tragic victim of illogical beliefs and dangerous cultural practices. The contributors to this Hot Spots series offer their personal and …

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RSS Somatosphere

  • In the Journals, April 2025
  • In the Journals, March 2025
  • In the Journals – A View from France
  • In the Journals, February 2025
  • Book review: Anna Stenning’s ‘Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering’

RSS Pubmed – Ebola

  • Understanding the perceptions of risks versus the benefits of COVID-19 vaccinations in Manyara, Tanzania
  • SuFEx-enabled high-throughput medicinal chemistry for developing potent tamoxifen analogs as Ebola virus entry inhibitors
  • COVID-19 prevention and preparedness among healthcare workers in Sierra Leone
  • Test-Negative Designs with Multiple Testing Sources
  • Design of a stapled peptide that binds to the Ebola virus matrix protein dimer interface

RSS The Lancet Global Health Blog

RSS Ebola Digest

RSS Médecins Sans Frontières

RSS Who – Outbreaks

RSS Reliefweb

RSS Ebola Deeply

RSS Ebola Communication Network

  • After Ebola, Promoting New ‘Gold Star’ Brand to Increase Use of Health Services
  • Rebuilding Trust in Health Care through Community Dialogues
  • The Sexual Transmission of Ebola: Scicomm as a matter of life and death – Part 2 of 2
  • Where Does Ebola Come From? Communicating Science as a Matter of Life and Death – Part 1 of 2
  • After Reaching 42 Days with No Ebola Cases, One Thing Rings True for Sierra Leoneans: “We are all Survivors”

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