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. -- .

• | Author: Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta, Paul Weindling
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781526174574
• | ISBN-10: 152617457X