Medicalising Borders - Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800

The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. Not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, 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. This volume explores historical models of quarantine, spatial isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, 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 developed during the last quarter of the millennium. Drawing 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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Rethinking Borders
Release date:	November 2023
First published:	2021
Editors:	Sevasti Trubeta • Christian Promitzer • Paul Weindling
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-7457-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-5261-7457-X
Barcode:	9781526174574

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