Medicalising Borders - Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800

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.

About the author

Sevasti Trubeta is a Professor for Childhood and Migration at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal.

Christian Promitzer is a researcher at the Institute for History, University of Graz

Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Sevasti Promitzer Trubeta
• Assisted by: Christian Promitzer (Editor), Sevasti Trubeta (Editor), Paul Weindling (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781526154668
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-5466-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Rethinking Borders
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)