Medicalising borders : : selection, containment and quarantine since 1800 / / edited by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling.
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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| Superior document: | Rethinking Borders Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rethinking borders (Manchester, England).
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 343 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s). |
| Notes: | "This volume emerged from the conference ‘Border Crossing and Medicine: Quarantine, Detention and Containment in History and the Present’ which was organised by the editors of this volume. The conference was funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation and took place in February 2017 at the Free University of Berlin, hosted by the Centre for Modern Greece" -- Preface and acknowledgements. |
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