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Medicine At The Border

Medicine At The Border

A. Bashford

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2006
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Historia
ISBN:
9780230507067

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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

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