Overview
This volume was produced by a wide consortium representing a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines
The work presents an attempt to get ahead of a possible pandemic occurrence
The book expands the epistemological implications of the West African outbreak
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Together the models suggest shifts in regional agroeconomics under the neoliberal doctrine, driving deforestation and monoculture production, destroying the ecosystemic “friction” with which local forests typically disrupt Ebola transmission. The resulting collapse in such an ecological function accelerates pathogen spillover and propagation across the remaining host populations. The failure on the part of current control efforts to assimilate such a structural context may render even an efficacious vaccine dysfunctional. The authors propose an alternate science of disease and an adjunct program of interventions useful to researchers and public health officials alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Robert G. Wallace, PhD, is a public health phylogeographer presently visiting the University of Minnesota's Institute for Global Studies. His research has addressed the evolution and spread of influenza, the agroeconomics of Ebola, the social geography of HIV/AIDS in New York City, the emergence of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus out of Ugandan prehistory, and the evolution of infection life history in response to antivirals. Wallace is co-author of Farming Human Pathogens: Ecological Resilience and Evolutionary Process (Springer). He has consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and physics from Columbia, worked a decade as a public interest lobbyist, is a past recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and is the author of numerous books and papers on matters of public health and public order.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neoliberal Ebola
Book Subtitle: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm
Editors: Robert G. Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40940-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40939-9Published: 06 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82223-5Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40940-5Published: 29 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 96
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Systems Biology, Epidemiology