Personal Protective Equipment in the humanitarian governance of Ebola: between individual patient care and global biosecurity

Polly Pallister-Wilkins

Third World Quarterly, 2016, vol. 37, issue 3, 507-523

Abstract: This article focuses on the use of Personal Protective Equipment in humanitarianism. It takes the recent Ebola outbreak as a case through which to explore the role of objects in saving individual lives and protecting populations. The argument underlines the importance of PPE in mediating between individual patient care and biosecurity. In addition it questions the preoccupation with technical fixes; challenges dominant perceptions about the subject of humanitarianism being the victims of disaster; traces the production of a particular politics of life; and explores the individualisation of risk and concomitant processes of labour discipline in the everyday lives of humanitarian workers.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1116935

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