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Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history / Paul Farmer.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374234324
- ISBN: 0374234329
- Physical Description: xxviii, 653 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [527]-619) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: The caregiver's disease -- Part I: Ebola hits home. The twenty-fifth epidemic? -- Tough calls -- Ibrahim's second chance -- The two ordeals of Yabom -- Interlude I: Down the rabbit hole -- Part II: Fevers, feuds, and diamonds. The upper Guinea coast and the world the slaves made -- The great scramble and the rise of the Pasteurians -- A world at war: The making of a clinical desert -- Things fall apart: Civil war and its aftermath -- Interlude II: The crisis caravan -- Part III: Death and life after Ebola. How Ebola kills: An exercise in social medicine -- The silly things and the fever next time -- Epilogue: The color of COVID. |
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| Subject: | Ebola virus disease > History. Epidemics. Coronavirus infections. Medical care. Ebola virus disease. Epidemics. |
| Genre: | Personal narratives. |
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| 250 | . | ‡aFirst edition. | |
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| 264 | 4. | ‡c©2020 | |
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