Ebola and Public Authority: Saving Loved Ones in Sierra Leone

It is unclear how public authorities shaped responses to Ebola in Sierra Leone. Focusing on one village, we analyze what happened when “staff, stuff, space, and systems” were absent. Mutuality between neighbors, linked to secret societies, necessitated collective care for infected loved ones, irresp...

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Autores principales: Parker, Melissa, Hanson, Tommy Matthew, Vandi, Ahmed, Babawo, Lawrence Sao, Allen, Tim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Routledge 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6607031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31107603
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2019.1609472
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description It is unclear how public authorities shaped responses to Ebola in Sierra Leone. Focusing on one village, we analyze what happened when “staff, stuff, space, and systems” were absent. Mutuality between neighbors, linked to secret societies, necessitated collective care for infected loved ones, irrespective of the risks. Practical learning was quick. Numbers recovering were reported to be higher among people treated in hidden locations, compared to those taken to Ebola Treatment Centres. Our findings challenge positive post-Ebola narratives about international aid and military deployment. A morally appropriate people’s science emerged under the radar of external scrutiny, including that of a paramount chief.
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spelling pubmed-66070312019-07-16 Ebola and Public Authority: Saving Loved Ones in Sierra Leone Parker, Melissa Hanson, Tommy Matthew Vandi, Ahmed Babawo, Lawrence Sao Allen, Tim Med Anthropol Article It is unclear how public authorities shaped responses to Ebola in Sierra Leone. Focusing on one village, we analyze what happened when “staff, stuff, space, and systems” were absent. Mutuality between neighbors, linked to secret societies, necessitated collective care for infected loved ones, irrespective of the risks. Practical learning was quick. Numbers recovering were reported to be higher among people treated in hidden locations, compared to those taken to Ebola Treatment Centres. Our findings challenge positive post-Ebola narratives about international aid and military deployment. A morally appropriate people’s science emerged under the radar of external scrutiny, including that of a paramount chief. Routledge 2019-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6607031/ /pubmed/31107603 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2019.1609472 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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