Medicine at the border : disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bashford, Alison, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Civilizing the state : borders, weak states and international health in modern Europe
  • Yellow fever crusade : US colonialism, tropical medicine, and the international politics of mosquito control, 1900-1920
  • WHO-led or WHO-managed" Re-assessing the Smallpox Eradication Program in India, 1960-1980
  • The World Health Organization and the transition from international to global health
  • Where is the border? Screening for tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1950-2000
  • Medical humanitarianism in and beyond France : Breaking down or patrolling borders?
  • Screening out diseased bodies : immigration, mandatory HIV testing, and the making of a healthy Canada
  • Passports and pestilence : migration, security and contemporary border control of infectious diseases
  • Drawing the lines : danger and risk in the age of SARS
  • Biosecurity : friend or foe for public health governance
  • Postcard from plaguetown : SARS and the exoticization of Toronto
  • The geopolitics of Global Public Health Surveillance in the twenty-first century