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Medicine at the border :

0230288901

9780230288904

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Medicine at the border :

[Book]

disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present

edited by Alison Bashford.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York

Palgrave Macmillan

2006

(xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations

The age of universal contagion' : history, disease and globalization / Alison Bashford --;Civilizing the state : borders, weak states and international health in modern Europe / Patrick Zylberman --;Yellow fever crusade : US colonialism, tropical medicine, and the international politics of mosquito control, 1900-1920 / Alexandra Minna Stern --;WHO-led or WHO-managed? : re-assessing the smallpox eradication program in India, 1960-1980 / Sanjoy Bhattacharya --;The World Health Organization and the transition from 'international' to 'global' health / Theodore M. Brown, Marcos Cueto, Elizabeth Fee --;Where is the border? : screening for tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1950-2000 / Ian Convery, John Welshman, Alison Bashford --;Medical humanitarianism in and beyond France : breaking down or patrolling borders? / Miriam Ticktin --;Screening out diseased bodies : immigration, mandatory HIV testing, and the making of a healthy Canada / Renisa Mawani --;Passports and pestilence : migration, security and contemporary border control of infectious diseases / Richard Coker, Alan Ingram --;Drawing the lines : danger and risk in the age of SARS / Claire Hooker --;Biosecurity : friend or foe for public health governance? / David P. Fidler --;Postcard from plaguetown : SARS and the exoticization of Toronto / Carolyn Strange --;The geopolitics of global public health surveillance in the twenty-first century / Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy.

This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of international relations, bringing together leading scholars on the history and politics of global health.

Globalization -- Health aspects.

Public health -- Political aspects.

World health.

edited by Alison Bashford.

Alison Bashford

[Book]

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