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.
The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like SARS-CoV-2, reaches beyond biomedicine and touches the core of modern statehood, since foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By illuminating these issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume starts with historical models of quarantine. It deals with fears of contamination and the corresponding stereotypes border crossers and migrants are confronted with. At state borders the latter have been subject to the implementation of medical, genetic and biometric screening techniques. The book wants to show that the contemporary border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power that originate in European modernity; it draws on the expertise of a network of researchers who deal with these issues from the early eighteenth century up to recent developments.
Edited by:
Sevasti Trubeta,
Christian Promitzer,
Paul Weindling
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781526154668
ISBN 10: 1526154668
Series: Rethinking Borders
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 27 April 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Medicalising borders – Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling Part I: Quarantine 1 Habsburg border quarantines until 1837: an epidemiological ‘iron curtain’? – Sabine Jesner 2 Cholera at the junction of maritime and land routes in nineteenth-century Trieste – Urška Bratož 3 Uses of quarantine in the nineteenth century until the Crimean War: examples from south-east Europe – Christian Promitzer 4 Weak state-controlled disease prevention in peripheral border regions: Austrian Bukovina and Dalmatia in late nineteenth century – Carlos Watzka Part II: (Dis)connections – containment 5 Lazarettos as border filters: expurgating bodies, commodities and ideas, 1800–1870s – John Chircop 6 Sealing borders and containing prisoners: from free movement of migrants to containment in concentration camps – Paul Weindling 7 Locating disease: on the coexistence of diverse concepts of territory and the spread of disease – Sarah Green 8 Fear and panic at the borders: outbreak anxieties in the United States from the colonies to COVID-19 – Amy Lauren Fairchild, Constance A. Nathanson and Cullen Conway Part III: Selection 9 ‘Suspect’ screening: the limits of Britain’s medicalised borders, 1962–1981 – Roberta Bivins 10 A question of hygiene or nationality? Exclusion and non-Jewish labour migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Israel, 2006–2017 – Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida 11 Medicalised borders and racism in the era of humanitarianism – Sevasti Trubeta Index -- .
Sevasti Trubeta is a Professor for Childhood and Migration at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal. Christian Promitzer is a researcher at the Institute for History, University of Graz Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University
Reviews for Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800
'Medicalising Borders makes it abundantly clear that medicine cannot play Pontius Pilatus and wash its hands in innocence.' Leo van Bergen, Leiden University Medical Centre, Medicine, Conflict and Survival -- .
