Medicalising borders : selection, containment and quarantine since 1800 /

Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Colección:Rethinking borders (Manchester, England)
Temas:
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects > History.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
Medical policy.
Communicable diseases > Prevention > History.
Immigrants > Medical care > History.
Health Policy
Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale > Histoire.
Politique sanitaire.
Maladies infectieuses > Prévention > Histoire.
Communicable diseases > Prevention.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects.
Immigrants > Medical care.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Medicalising borders
  • Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul WeindlingPart I: Quarantine1 Habsburg border quarantines until 1837: an epidemiological 'iron curtain'?
  • Sabine Jesner2 Cholera at the junction of maritime and land routes in nineteenth-century Trieste
  • Urška Bratož3 Uses of quarantine in the nineteenth century until the Crimean War: examples from south-east Europe
  • Christian Promitzer4 Weak state-controlled disease prevention in peripheral border regions: Austrian Bukovina and Dalmatia in late nineteenth century
  • Carlos WatzkaPart II: (Dis)connections
  • containment5 Lazarettos as border filters: expurgating bodies, commodities and ideas, 1800-1870s
  • John Chircop6 Sealing borders and containing prisoners: from free movement of migrants to containment in concentration camps
  • Paul Weindling7 Locating disease: on the coexistence of diverse concepts of territory and the spread of disease
  • Sarah Green8 Fear and panic at the borders: outbreak anxieties in the United States from the colonies to COVID-19
  • Amy Lauren Fairchild, Constance A. Nathanson and Cullen ConwayPart III: Selection9 'Suspect' screening: the limits of Britain's medicalised borders, 1962-1981
  • Roberta Bivins10 A question of hygiene or nationality? Exclusion and non-Jewish labour migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Israel, 2006-2017
  • Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida11 Medicalised borders and racism in the era of humanitarianism
  • Sevasti TrubetaIndex

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