Medicalising borders
Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800
The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders. This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns…
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Weitere Autoren: Promitzer, Christian (Hrsg.) / Weindling, Paul (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-5465-1
- EAN: 9781526154651
- Produktnummer: 36464551
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 9 black & white illustrations; 3 tables
Über den Autor
Sevasti Trubeta is a researcher at the Institute of Childhood Studies, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal Christian Promitzer is a researcher at the Institute for History, University of Graz Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University
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