Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

2006

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of international relations, bringing together leading scholars on the history and politics of global health.

Book information

ISBN: 9781137444660
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2006
DEWEY: 614.409
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xvi, 271
Weight: 348g
Height: 144mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 17mm