Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic

基本信息

Format Hardback | 288 pages

Dimensions 140 x 210 x 25.4mm | 453.59g

Publication date 28 Dec 2018

Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Language English

Illustrations note 11 photos, 1 map, 1 graph, 2 tables

ISBN10 0674976118

ISBN13 9780674976115

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

曾帮助控制埃博拉疫情的一名获奖基因研究人员和一名获奖记者透露了如何防止下一场疫情失控。

正如我们在应对埃博拉病毒和兹卡病毒的过程中所看到的，以及在早期处理新冠病毒疫情时所看到的灾难性后果，缺乏准备、行动延误以及关键医疗资源在系统范围内的大规模分配问题，都可能导致生命的丧失。

Outbreak Culture调查了2014年西非埃博拉疫情的每个阶段——迄今为止最大也是最致命的疫情之一——并确定了阻止关键信息传达给医生的因素。Pardis Sabeti和Lara Salahi从临床工作者、数据收集者、组织专家和公共卫生研究人员那里获得了深刻的见解，揭示了一个无法收集和分享病毒知识并确保及时控制的系统的漏洞。作者描述了全球医疗和政治组织本可以多做多少工作，以保障受这一毁灭性疫情影响的护理人员、患者和社区的福祉，并概述了迫切需要作出的改变，以确保对下一次疫情采取更有效的协调应对措施。

保密、竞争和协调不力几乎困扰着每一场重大的公共卫生危机，我们正看到它们的致命后果再次上演。Outbreak Culture是一部具有无畏的完整性和无懈可击的权威著作，它试图改变应对者的文化。

An award-winning genetic researcher who helped contain the Ebola outbreak and a prize-winning journalist reveal what it will take to prevent the next pandemic from spiraling out of control.

As we saw with our response to Ebola and Zika—and are seeing now with the disastrous early handling of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak—a lack of preparedness, delays in action, and large-scale system-wide problems with the distribution of critical medical resources can result in lost lives.

Outbreak Culture examines each phase of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa—one of the largest and deadliest epidemics to date—and identifies factors that prevented key information from reaching physicians. Drawing insights from clinical workers, data collectors, organizational experts, and public health researchers, Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi expose a fractured system that failed to gather and share knowledge of the virus and ensure timely containment. The authors describe how much more could have been done by global medical and political organizations to safeguard the well-being of caregivers, patients, and communities affected by this devastating outbreak and they outline changes that are urgently needed to ensure a more effective coordinated response to the next epidemic.

Secrecy, competition, and poor coordination plague nearly every major public health crisis—and we are seeing their deadly consequences play out again. A work of fearless integrity and unassailable authority, Outbreak Culture seeks to change the culture of responders.

目录

CONTENTS

Introduction

Prologue

1. Setting for Disaster

2. Outbreak Culture

3. Coveted Data, Research Restricted

4. The Wavering Response

5. Rooted in Compassion, Weeded in Conspiracy

6. Epidemic of Fear

7. Investment and Accountability

8. Ebola's Fallout

9. Navigating the Next Epidemic

10. Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

作者简介

Pardis Sabeti is Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A member of the Broad Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Sabeti was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer, and one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2015. She is also the recipient of an NIH New Innovator Award and a Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences.

Lara Salahi is an award-winning journalist and television producer for multiple outlets, including ABC News. She was part of the team at the Boston Globe awarded a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for its exhaustive and empathetic coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Salahi is Assistant Professor of Broadcast and Digital Journalism at Endicott College.