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Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World

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Informationen zum Autor Alison Bashford, University of Sydney, AustraliaRoberta Bivins, University of Warwick, UKNadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, public health physicianKatherine Foxhall, King's College London, UKLetizia Gramaglia, University of Warwick, UKAnne Mac Lellan, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, IrelandJohn Welshman, Lancaster University, UK Klappentext 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. To come Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index...

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Tables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index

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Authors Catherine Marland Cox
Assisted by Cox (Editor), C Cox (Editor), C. Cox (Editor), Catherine Cox (Editor), Marland (Editor), Marland (Editor), H. Marland (Editor), Hilary Marland (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 29.10.2013
 
EAN 9781137303226
ISBN 978-1-137-30322-6
No. of pages 201
Series Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
Science, Technology and Medici
Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
Science, Technology and Medici
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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