Ebola vaccines, evidentiary charisma and the rise of global health emergency research
This paper analyses how the tensions played out in the accelerated development, testing and licensure of Ebola vaccines
Abstract
The 2013–2016 West African Ebola outbreak was both a catastrophic public health disaster and a rare research opportunity. This paper analyses how the tensions between the humanitarian imperatives of disease control and the epistemic conventions of bioscientific inquiry played out in the accelerated development, testing and licensure of Ebola vaccines.
This research was supported by the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme
Citation
Ann H. Kelly (2018) Ebola vaccines, evidentiary charisma and the rise of global health emergency research, Economy and Society, 47:1, 135-161, DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2018.1448557
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Ebola vaccines, evidentiary charisma and the rise of global health emergency research