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Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800 - Rethinking Borders
Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800 - Rethinking Borders
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. -- .
304 pages, 9 black & white illustrations; 3 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 27, 2021 |
| ISBN13 | 9781526154668 |
| Publishers | Manchester University Press |
| Pages | 344 |
| Dimensions | 224 × 146 × 26 mm · 538 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Promitzer, Christian |
| Editor | Trubeta, Sevasti |
| Editor | Weindling, Paul |