Week 10: Contemporary Humanitarianism: Ebola
Seminar Questions
- In what ways did humanitarian responses to Ebola resemble responses to previous epidemics in Africa? What continuities can we see? What changes?
- Why have the consequences of medical humanitarianism often differed from humanitarians' intended outcomes?
Required Reading
- Paul Richards, How a People’s Science Helped End an Epidemic (2016), (Chapter 6) [e-book]
- https://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/oneheavygig/
- https://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/les-roberts-the-prediction-landscape-is-looking-bad/
- https://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/les-roberts-day-40-kb/
- https://pfmhcolumbia.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/les-roberts-day-56-the-end/
- 'The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place', Washington Post
Further Reading
- Moon, Suerie et al. 'Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola', The Lancet , Volume 386 , Issue 10009, 2204 - 2221.
- New York Times articles on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa
- Guardian articles on Ebola