More Than a Health Crisis: Securitization and the Us Response to the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak Kirk Jessica
More Than a Health Crisis: Securitization and the Us Response to the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak Kirk Jessica How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into…
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More Than a Health Crisis: Securitization and the Us Response to the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak Kirk Jessica
How the West African Ebola epidemic was transformed from an urgent and distant tragedy into an existential threat to American lives--establishing the dynamics that would later dominate the US response to epidemics such as COVID-19.In 2014 and 2015, the viral Ebola epidemic in West Africa inspired breathless US media coverage and became the subject of heated public debate over just how to understand the security issue that the outbreak presented. Or because of its threat to regional and global stability? Was it a security concern because of the lives at risk in West Africa?
In More than a Health Crisis, Jessica Kirk reveals how these varied positions spoke to divisions within the American public, concerning how we think about and respond to uncertainty, competing expertise, and securitization.Kirk Or was it potentially a threat to the American people?