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Title: | Neo-liberal Health Reforms and the Failure of Healthcare in Sierra Leone: The Case of the Ebola Crisis |
Authors: | Wilkin, P Conteh, A |
Keywords: | Ebola;Sierra Leone;Militarisation;Security/development;Health care;Poverty |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
Publisher: | TAYLOR & FRANCIS |
Citation: | African Studies, 77 (3): (2018) |
Abstract: | The ongoing Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone illustrates the ways in which the security/development discourse that has emerged over the past two decades remains largely embedded in orthodox theoretical assumptions that have been shaped by a blend of realist and neo-liberal theories. As we will show, the logical outcome of this orthodox security/development discourse is that it leads to a militarisation of what is in reality a complex social problem. The neo-liberal policies adopted by governments has served to heighten these social problems and in so doing have created the social conditions for the generation of the Ebola Virus to emerge. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13912 |
ISSN: | 0002-0184 1469-2872 |
Appears in Collections: | Sociology Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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