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N/A - Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present - 9781137444660 - V9781137444660
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Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

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Description for Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present Paperback. The threat of global pandemic disease is currently mobilizing experts, governments, and the exploding industry in 'security'; and yet this has all happened before. Alison Bashford explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Editor(s): Bashford, Alison. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBTB; HBTQ; MBNS; MJCJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137444660
SKU
V9781137444660
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About N/A
SANJOY BHATTACHARYA Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK THEODORE 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, USA RICHARD J. COKER Reader in Public Health and Policy at The London School ... Read more

Reviews for Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present
'The examples of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and, more recently, bird flu illustrate how societies have been riven by fear of the threat of epidemic disease. This book helps us make sense of the place of disease control in a globalized world. It shows how, historically, national, colonial, international and global issues have been enmeshed in the development of modern public health ... Read more

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