{"product_id":"medicalising-borders-selection-containment-and-quarantine-since-1800-9781526154668","title":"Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns of prejudice with which these groups are confronted, the book also deals with various kinds of fear of contamination from outside of the nation state. The contributors address the implementation of medical techniques at state borders in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the presently practiced measures of medical and biometric screening of migrants and refugees. Uniquely, this volume shows that the current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power, which originate both in European modernity and in the medical and biological disciplines developed during the last quarter of the millennium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the collective expertise of a network of international researchers, this interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the medicalisation of borders across the globe, from the early eighteenth century up to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eMedicalising Borders\u003c\/i\u003e makes it abundantly clear that medicine cannot play  Pontius Pilatus and wash its hands in innocence.' \u003cbr\u003eLeo van Bergen, Leiden University Medical Centre,\u003ci\u003e Medicine, Conflict and Survival\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Medicalising borders – Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Quarantine\u003cbr\u003e1          Habsburg border quarantines until 1837: an epidemiological ‘iron curtain’? – Sabine Jesner\u003cbr\u003e2          Cholera at the junction of maritime and land routes in nineteenth-century Trieste – Urška Bratož\u003cbr\u003e3          Uses of quarantine in the nineteenth century until the Crimean War: examples from south-east Europe – Christian Promitzer\u003cbr\u003e4          Weak state-controlled disease prevention in peripheral border regions: Austrian Bukovina and Dalmatia in late nineteenth century – Carlos Watzka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: (Dis)connections – containment\u003cbr\u003e5          Lazarettos as border filters: expurgating bodies, commodities and ideas, 1800–1870s – John Chircop\u003cbr\u003e6          Sealing borders and containing prisoners: from free movement of migrants to containment in concentration camps – Paul Weindling\u003cbr\u003e7          Locating disease: on the coexistence of diverse concepts of territory and the spread of disease – Sarah Green\u003cbr\u003e8          Fear and panic at the borders: outbreak anxieties in the United States from the colonies to COVID-19 – Amy Lauren Fairchild, Constance A. Nathanson and Cullen Conway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Selection\u003cbr\u003e9          ‘Suspect’ screening: the limits of Britain’s medicalised borders, 1962–1981 – Roberta Bivins\u003cbr\u003e10        A question of hygiene or nationality? Exclusion and non-Jewish labour migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Israel, 2006–2017 – Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida\u003cbr\u003e11        Medicalised borders and racism in the era of humanitarianism – Sevasti Trubeta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041019298135,"sku":"9781526154668","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526154668.jpg?v=1750948623","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medicalising-borders-selection-containment-and-quarantine-since-1800-9781526154668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}