Ethical (Dis)enchantment, Afflictive Kinship and Ebola Exceptionalism.

This chapter begins with an ethnographic contribution from post-Ebola Sierra Leone, illustrating how in order to understand the differences between impairment, disease, and disability, there is a need to understand ‘ordinary ethics’. I begin by illustrating what this means through the unmaking of ethical practices during the Ebola epidemic in terms of, for example, caring relationships and social obligations of kinship. Secondly, I illustrate how post-Ebola disability as disablement is displayed as afflictive kinship when it is no longer possible to remake ethical life because bonds of kinship do not function. Thirdly, I give two examples of the ways in which a biomedical public reconstruction of social ethics has only led to disability and disablement for people living with consequences of Ebola.