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Medicalising borders: Selection, containment and quarantine since 1800

By Sevasti Trubeta (Editor), Christian Promitzer (Editor), Paul Weindling (Editor)
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By Sevasti Trubeta (Editor), Christian Promitzer (Editor), Paul Weindling (Editor)
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The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders.

This volume illuminates these issues from various disciplinary viewpoints. It starts by exploring historical models of quarantine, spatial isolati...

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