This paper examines moral economies of medical humanitarianism in the context of small-scale Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and explores how rural Congolese describe epidemics not only as sites of accumulation and capture, but also as events born of unrecognized labour in the form of generative social acts.

About the speaker

Lys Alcanna-Stevens is an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of Oxford.