Yesterday, The CIHA Blog assembled a number of articles about the ethics of treatment of the Ebola virus and the populations afflicted by it. Today, we are looking at a number of broader ethical issues, including distrust of NGO and government efforts to enact public health measures – often coming out of longstanding governance failures and the multitude of NGOs that enter during humanitarian crises.
How Not to End a Plague
by Clair MacDougall in Foreign Policy
Ebola Threatens to Derail a Decade of Peace
by Leymah Gbowee in The Guardian
Using a Tactic Unseen in a Century, Countries Cordon Off Ebola-Racked Areas
by Donald G. McNeil Jr. in The New York Times
As Ebola Grips Liberia’s Capital, a Quarantine Sows Social Chaos
by Norimitsu Onishi in The New York Times
Ebola, mistrust and humanitarian mobility
by Adia Benton for Mats Utas’ blog
Fear in Liberia turns violent as a mob attacks an Ebola clinic
by Marc Kilstein in PRI’s The World
Liberia’s poverty, skepticism of experts makes treating Ebola harder
by Pamela Scully for Reuters
On the off chance that war doesn’t change everything: More on Ebola
by Adia Benton for Ethnography 911 blog
On Ebola and the pathological movements of Others
by Adia Benton for Ethnography 911 blog