Medicine at the border : disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present / edited by Alison Bashford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bashford, Alison, 1963-

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Health aspects.

Globalization.

Public health--Political aspects.

Public health.

World health.

Physical Description:

xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

The threat of global pandemic disease is currently mobilizing experts, governments, and the exploding industry in 'security'; and yet, this has all happened before. Medicine at the Border explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 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. The authors show how infectious disease has been central to the political, legal and commercial history of nationalism, colonialism and internationalism over the modern period.

Contents:

1 'The Age of Universal Contagion': History, Disease and Globalization / Alison Bashford 1

Part I World Health: Colonial and National Histories 19

2 Civilizing the State: Borders, Weak States and International Health in Modern Europe / Patrick Zylberman 21

3 Yellow Fever Crusade: US Colonialism, Tropical Medicine, and the International Politics of Mosquito Control, 1900-1920 / Alexandra Minna Stern 41

4 WHO-led or WHO-managed? Re-assessing the Smallpox Eradication Program in India, 1960-1980 / Sanjoy Bhattacharya 60

5 The World Health Organization and the Transition from 'International' to 'Global' Health / Theodore M. Brown, Marcos Cueto, Elizabeth Fee 76

Part II National Security: Migration, Territory and Border Regulation 95

6 Where is the Border?: Screening for Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1950-2000 / Ian Convery, John Welshman, Alison Bashford 97

7 Medical Humanitarianism in and Beyond France: Breaking Down or Patrolling Borders? / Miriam Ticktin 116

8 Screening out Diseased Bodies: Immigration, Mandatory HIV Testing, and the Making of a Healthy Canada / Renisa Mawani 136

9 Passports and Pestilence: Migration, Security and Contempory Border Control of Infectious Diseases / Richard Coker, Alan Ingram 159

Part III Globalization: Deterritorialized Health? 177

10 Drawing the Lines: Danger and Risk in the Age of SARS / Claire Hooker 179

11 Biosecurity: Friend or Foe for Public Health Governance? / David P. Fidler 196

12 Postcard from Plaguetown: SARS and the Exorticization of Toronto / Carolyn Strange 219

13 The Geopolitics of Global Public Health Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century / Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0230507069

9780230507067

OCLC:

70265650

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