Medicine At The Border
Subtitle: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the present
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780230507067
Subjects: Epidemiology & medical statistics; History of medicine; International relations; 20th century; 21st century; c 1800 to c 1900; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Health Care Delivery; World - General; History / World; History; Globalization; Health aspects; Political aspects; Public health; World health
Description: 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.