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International Political Economy and the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

Adia Benton  and
Kim Yi Dionne
Adia Benton
Affiliation:
Adia Benton is an assistant professor of anthropology at Brown University. She is a medical anthropologist who studies public health ideology and interventions and the author of HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). E-mail: [email protected]
Kim Yi Dionne
Affiliation:
Kim Yi Dionne is a Five College assistant professor of government at Smith College. She studies health and politics in Africa, with a focus on the policy priorities of ordinary citizens to whom health interventions are targeted. E-mail: [email protected]
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African Studies Review , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , April 2015 , pp. 223 - 236
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