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1 online resource |
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Rethinking borders |
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Rethinking borders (Manchester, England)
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 techniques that originate in European modernity |
| Analysis |
quarantine; containment; biomedical selection; COVID-19; camp; racialisation; migration; refugees; medicalised borders; health security |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2021) |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- Health aspects -- History
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History
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Medical policy.
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- History
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Immigrants -- Medical care -- History
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Health Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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Emigration and immigration -- Health aspects
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Immigrants -- Medical care
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Medical policy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526154651 |
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152615465X |
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9781526154675 |
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1526154676 |
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