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Author Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022 author.

Title Fevers, feuds, and diamonds : Ebola and the ravages of history / Paul Farmer.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
©2020

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  614.588 FARMER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  614.57 FARMER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  614.57 FARMER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  614.4 FARMER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.57 FARMER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  614.57 FAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  614.57 FAR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  614.588 FARMER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  614.57 FARMER    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  614.57 FAR    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xxviii, 653 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-619) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "Public health expert Paul Farmer describes the historical origins of the 2014 Ebola epidemic"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Ebola virus disease -- History.
Epidemics.
Coronavirus infections.
Medical care.
Ebola virus disease. (OCoLC)fst00901253
Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Personal narratives.
Instructional and educational works.
Added Title Ebola and the ravages of history
ISBN 9780374234324 (hardcover)
0374234329 (hardcover)
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