Medicalising borders : : selection, containment and quarantine since 1800 / / edited by Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling.

• Superior document: Rethinking Borders Series
• TeilnehmendeR: Trubeta, Sevasti,; Promitzer, Christian,; Weindling, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Rethinking borders (Manchester, England).
• 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.
• Audience: The volume intends to address students of the history of medicine as well as of social and political sciences, of history and anthropology. It poses serious questions about the medical treatment of migrants and refugees which belong to the realm of medical ethics.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 152615465X; 1526154676
• Access: Open Access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 techniques that originate in European modernity. "The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19, reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are furthermore a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders. This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts with historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns of prejudice with which these groups are confronted, the book also deals with various kinds of fear of contamination from the outside of the nation state. It addresses the implementation of medical techniques at state borders in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the presently practiced measures of medical and biometric screening of migrants and refugees. Uniquely, this volume shows that the current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power, which originate in European modernity and in the medical and biological disciplines developed during the last quarter of the millennium. Drawing on the collective expertise of a network of international researchers, this interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the medicalisation of borders across the globe, from the early eighteenth century up to the present day." -- Back cover.