Medicine at the Border

Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-137-44466-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3649 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bashford, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: 'The Age of Universal Contagion': Disease, History and Globalization; A.Bashford PART I: WORLD HEALTH: COLONIAL AND NATIONAL HISTORIES Civilizing the State: Borders, Weak States and International Health in Modern Europe; P.Zylberman Yellow Fever Crusade: US Colonialism, Tropical Medicine, and the International Politics of Mosquito Control, 1900-20; A.M.Stern WHO-led or WHO-managed? Re-assessing the Smallpox Eradication Programme in India, 1960-80; S.Bhattacharya The World Health Organisation and the Transition from 'International' to 'Global' Health; T.M.Brown, M.Cueto & E.Fee PART II: NATIONAL SECURITY: MIGRATION, TERRITORY AND BORDER REGULATION Where is the Border? Turberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1950-2000; I.Convery, J.Welshman & A.Bashford Medical Humanitarianism in and beyond France: Breaking Down or Patrolling Borders?; M.Ticktin Screening out Diseased Bodies: Immigration, Mandatory HIV Testing, and the Making of a Healthy Canada; R.Mawani Passports and Pestilence: Migration, Security and Contemporary Border Control of Infectious Diseases; R.J.Coker & A.Ingram PART III: GLOBALIZATION: DETERRITORIALIZED HEALTH? Drawing the Lines: Danger and Risk in the Age of SARS; C.Hooker Biosecurity: Friend or Foe for Public Health Governance?; D.P.Fidler Postcard from Plaguetown: SARS and the Exoticisation of Toronto; C.Strange The Geopolitics of Global Public Health Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century; L.Weir & E.Mykhalovskiy

Über Autor(innen)

SANJOY BHATTACHARYA Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK
THEODORE 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, USA
RICHARD J. COKER Reader in Public Health and Policy at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
IAN CONVERY Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Central Lancashire, UK
MARCOS CUETO Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia of Lima, South America
ELIZABETH FEE Chief of the History of Medicine Section, the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
DAVID P. FIDLER Professor of law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow at
Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, USA
CLAIRE HOOKER Holder of the NH&MRC Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Health and based at the University of Toronto, Canada
ALAN INGRAM Lecturer in Geography at University College London, UK
RENISA MAWANI Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at The University of British Columbia, Canada
ERIC MYKHALOVSKIY Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University, Canada
ALEXANDRA 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, USA
CAROLYN STRANGE Director of Graduate Studies, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Australia
MIRIAM TICKTIN Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA
LORNA WEIR Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, York University, Canada
JOHN WELSHMAN Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University, UK
PATRICK ZYLBERMAN Senior Researcher at the CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-INSERM-EHESS, Paris, France