Broschiertes Buch

Medicalising borders

Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800

Herausgeber: Trubeta, Sevasti; Weindling, Paul; Promitzer, Christian

Beschreibung

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. -- .

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Rethinking Borders
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781526174574
• ISBN-10: 152617457X
• Artikelnr.: 67744441