Medicine at the Border : Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present
ISBN: 9780230288904
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: History; Social Science; Health;

This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. 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.


SANJOY BHATTACHARYA Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UKTHEODORE M. BROWN Professor and Chair of History and Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine and of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, USARICHARD J. COKER Reader in Public Health and Policy at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKIAN CONVERY Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Central Lancashire, UKMARCOS CUETO Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia of Lima, South AmericaELIZABETH FEE Chief of the History of Medicine Section, the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USADAVID P. FIDLER Professor of law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow atIndiana University School of Law, Bloomington, USACLAIRE HOOKER Holder of the NH&MRC Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Health and based at the University of Toronto, CanadaALAN INGRAM Lecturer in Geography at University College London, UKRENISA MAWANI Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at The University of British Columbia, CanadaERIC MYKHALOVSKIY Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University, CanadaALEXANDRA MINNA STERN Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan, USACAROLYN STRANGE Director of Graduate Studies, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, AustraliaMIRIAM TICKTIN Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan, USALORNA WEIR Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, York University, CanadaJOHN WELSHMAN Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University, UKPATRICK ZYLBERMAN Senior Researcher at the CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-INSERM-EHESS, Paris, France
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