Medicalising Borders

Selection, Containment and Quarantine Since 1800

Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling

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Manchester University Press
01 December 2023

Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology; History of medicine; Medical anthropology

Series: Rethinking Borders

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 isolation and detention as precautionary means against the dissemination of disease and contagion by border crossers, migrants and refugees. Besides the patterns of prejudice with which these groups are confronted, the book also deals with various kinds of fear of contamination from outside of the nation state. The contributors address the implementation of medical techniques at state borders in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as the presently practiced measures of medical and biometric screening of migrants and refugees. Uniquely, this volume shows that the current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of medicalised techniques of power, which originate both in European modernity and in the medical and biological disciplines developed during the last quarter of the millennium.

Drawing on the collective expertise of a network of international researchers, this interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for those wishing to understand the medicalisation of borders across the globe, from the early eighteenth century up to the present day.

Edited by: Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer, Paul Weindling
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781526174574
ISBN 10: 152617457X
Series: Rethinking Borders
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 01 December 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 -- .