Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0230507069 ISBN 13: 9780230507067

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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'The examples of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and, more recently, bird flu illustrate how societies have been riven by fear of the threat of epidemic disease. This book helps us make sense of the place of disease control in a globalized world. It shows how, historically, national, colonial, international and global issues have been enmeshed in the development of modern public health responses. It demonstrates the connections between nationalism and the use of the 'hygienic shield' of border regulation. I can recommend it to all those who want an informed analysis of the historical roots of current concerns about global pandemics.' - Professor Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

'These wide-ranging and probing essays are an essential guide to the new and sometimes frightening world of biocommunication, biopreparedness and biosecuirty. Together they reveal the larger biological and microbial dimensions of globalization and outline a telling post-colonial critique of the contemporary politics of national and international health.' - Professor Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines

'Without denying or erasing the changes that have taken place in public health and border medicine over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries,

Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

< thus closes the circle, and finds a balance between documenting the distinctive features of contemporary medicalized borders and reminding scholars and policy-makers alike that they have deep roots and unintended consequences we cannot afford to ignore.' - Roberta Bivins, Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research)

'This book is a pioneering contribution to the history of medicine and public health in Tunisia and to colonial medicine in general and will become an indispensable source for future researchers. The author is to be congratulated.' - Nancy Gallagher, Medical History

L'autore:

SANJOY BHATTACHARYA Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UKTHEODORE M. BROWN Professor and Chair of History and Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine and of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, USARICHARD J. COKER Reader in Public Health and Policy at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKIAN CONVERY Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Central Lancashire, UKMARCOS CUETO Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia of Lima, South AmericaELIZABETH FEE Chief of the History of Medicine Section, the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USADAVID P. FIDLER Professor of law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow atIndiana University School of Law, Bloomington, USACLAIRE HOOKER Holder of the NH&MRC Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Health and based at the University of Toronto, CanadaALAN INGRAM Lecturer in Geography at University College London, UKRENISA MAWANI Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at The University of British Columbia, CanadaERIC MYKHALOVSKIY Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University, CanadaALEXANDRA MINNA STERN Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan, USACAROLYN STRANGE Director of Graduate Studies, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, AustraliaMIRIAM TICKTIN Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan, USALORNA WEIR Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, York University, CanadaJOHN WELSHMAN Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University, UKPATRICK ZYLBERMAN Senior Researcher at the CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-INSERM-EHESS, Paris, France

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0230507069
• ISBN 13: 9780230507067
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 271
• Redattore: Bashford A.