Description
| Product ID: | 9781526154668 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Rethinking Borders |
| Title: | Medicalising Borders |
| Subtitle: | Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800 |
| Authors: | Author: Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta, Paul Weindling |
| Page Count: | 344 |
| Subjects: | Migration, immigration and emigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, History of medicine, Human biology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of medicine, Medical anthropology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. -- . |
| Imprint Name: | Manchester University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Manchester University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-27 |