Medicalising borders : selection, containment and quarantine since 1800

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
Otros Autores: Trubeta, Sevasti (Editor), Trubeta, Sevasti, editor (editor), Promitzer, Christian, editor, Weindling, Paul, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester Manchester University Press 2021
Manchester : 2021.
Colección:Rethinking borders (Manchester, England).
Materias:
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects > History.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History.
Immigrants > Medical care > History.
Immigrants > Medical policy > History.
Communicable diseases > Prevention > History.
Communicable Disease Control > history.
Quarantine > history.
Epidemics > prevention & control.
Epidemics > history.
Emigration and Immigration > history.
Health Policy.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.
quarantine; containment; biomedical selection; COVID-19; camp; racialisation; migration; refugees; medicalised borders; health security
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Medicalising borders / Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling
  • Part I: Quarantine
  • 1. Habsburg border quarantines until 1837: an epidemiological ‘iron curtain’? / Sabine Jesner
  • 2. Cholera at the junction of maritime and land routes in 19th-century Trieste / Urška Bratož
  • 3. Uses of quarantine in the 19th century until the Crimean War - examples from Southeast Europe / Christian Promitzer
  • 4. Weak state-controlled disease prevention in peripheral border regions: Austrian Bukovina and Dalmatia in late 19th century / Carlos Watzka
  • Part II: (Dis-)connections — containment
  • 5. Lazarettos as border filters: expurgating bodies, commodities and ideas, 1800–1870s / John Chircop
  • 6. Sealing borders and containing prisoners: from free movement of migrants to containment in concentration camps / Paul Weindling
  • 7. Locating disease: on the co-existence of diverse concepts of territory and the spread of disease / Sarah Green
  • 8. 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 Conway
  • Part III: Selection
  • 9. ‘Suspect’ screening: the limits of Britain’s medicalised borders, 1962–1981 / Roberta Bivins
  • 10. 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 Zubida
  • 11. Medicalised borders and racism in the era of humanitarianism - Sevasti Trubeta.

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