Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World [electronic resource] /
Cox, C.editor.
Marland, H.editor.
The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; 1 Insanity and Immigration Restriction; 2 Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; 3 Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; 4 The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; 5 Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England, 1930-1960
6 Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain7 Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); 8 From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; Index
Includes index.
The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.
History, Modern.
History.
World history.
Social history.
Imperialism.
Social medicine.
Modern History.
History of Science.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Medical Sociology.