Ebola in Perspective: Health, Panic, and Politics

Nov. 6, 2014—On Wednesday, November, 12, the Vanderbilt Center for Medicine, Health and Society hosted a cross-campus panel titled Ebola in Perspective: Health, Panic, and Politics. The panel brought clinicians and public health experts involved in treating the ebola virus into conversation with humanists, social scientists, and students who study the cultural tropes, colonial assumptions, and mainstream stereotypes that have...

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