Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013–2016 West African Ebola Outbreak

Hasian, Jr.

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“…Scholars have built on Wald's (2008) work, documenting elements of this outbreak narrative in news accounts of SARS (Joye 2010;Lasco 2020;Levina 2015), MERS (Tsang 2013), H1N1 (Leach and Tadros 2014;Mason 2010;Wagner-Egger et al 2011), H5N1 (Egert 2019;Levina 2015;Lowe 2010), and hemorrhagic fevers (Hasian 2016;Leach and Hewlett 2010;McInnes 2016;Parmet and Sinha 2017). The outbreak narrative is also found in legal writings (Sinha and Parmet 2016), biomedical discourse (Caduff 2014.…”

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Narratives of Outbreak and Survival in English-Language Cinema Prior to COVID-19

Wade

2022

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Efforts to curb the COVID-19 pandemic were hampered by the tendency of some Americans to disbelieve its seriousness, distrust social institutions, and defy public health recommendations. To contribute to understanding these responses, I look to one facet of the discursive environment faced by public health communicators: the last 25 years of commercially successful, English-language, epidemic-themed feature films. I coded a sample of 34 films for competing “outbreak narratives” and content related to evidence of serious disease, the trustworthiness of social institutions, and the prevention of infection. I find characters in films usually encounter diseases with alarming symptom profiles and infection and death rates nearing 100 percent. Social institutions are overwhelmingly portrayed as negligent or manifestly evil. And the primary method of protecting oneself and others from infection is murder. I conclude that the content of these films could influence public culture and sow disbelief, distrust, and defiance.

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Section: Outbreak Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narratives of Outbreak and Survival in English-Language Cinema Prior to COVID-19

Wade

2022

Socius

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Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013–2016 West African Ebola Outbreak

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