Medicalising Borders : Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800

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. -- .

• | : Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling (Edited by)
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 27, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1526154668
• | ISBN-13: 9781526154668