Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm

Author:   Robert G. Wallace ,  Rodrick Wallace
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
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Pages:   96
Publication Date:   12 June 2018
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Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm


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Author:   Robert G. Wallace ,  Rodrick Wallace
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319822235


ISBN 10:   3319822233
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   12 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Did Ebola emerge in West Africa by a policy-driven phasechange in agroecology?.- Ebola in the hog sector: Modeling pandemic emergencein commodity livestock.- Did neoliberalizing West African forests produce avaccine-resistant Ebola?.- Introducing pandemic control theory.- The social amplification of pandemics and other disasters.

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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.

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