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The English system : quarantine, immigration and the making of a port sanitary zone /
'The English System' is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. During the later 19th century, British public health officials transformed the medieval quarantine system into a novel 'Eng...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | JSTOR EBA.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 'The English System' is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. During the later 19th century, British public health officials transformed the medieval quarantine system into a novel 'English System' of surveillance to control the introduction of infectious disease. This book explores the tensions and transition in the regulation of port health from a paradigm focused on the origin of disease to one which converged on the origin of the diseased. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781781706947 1781706948 9781526111999 1526111993 |