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It is rare for an edited collection of essays to be of consistently high quality, relevance and readability. Medicine at the Border is one such volume ... Combining the disciplines of history, anthropology, public health, and social policy, and bringing together scholars from five continents, Medicine at the Border shows how the study of contemporary public health demands the crossing of disciplinary boundaries. - Alex de Waal, Program Director, Social Science Research Council This book helps us make sense of the place of disease control in a globalized world. It shows how, historically, national, colonial, international and global issues have been enmeshed in the development of modern public health responses. It demonstrates the connections between nationalism and the use of the 'hygienic shield' of border regulation. I can recommend it to all those who want an informed analysis of the historical roots of current concerns about global pandemics. - Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK These wide-ranging and probing essays are an essential guide to the new and sometimes frightening world of biocommunication, biopreparedness and biosecurity. Together they reveal the larger biological and microbial dimensions of globalization and outline a telling post-colonial critique of the contemporary politics of national and international health. - Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, USA As editor Alison Bashford states in Chapter 1, we live in the 'age of universal contagion' (p.1), which positions diseases as much more than just body-related afflictions. Rather, they allow us to illuminate the connections between politics, medicine, and human rights. - Iro Filippaki, LSE Review of Books

It is rare for an edited collection of essays to be of consistently high quality, relevance and readability. Medicine at the Border is one such volume ... Combining the disciplines of history, anthropology, public health, and social policy, and bringing together scholars from five continents, Medicine at the Border shows how the study of contemporary public health demands the crossing of disciplinary boundaries. - Alex de Waal, Program Director, Social Science Research Council This book helps us make sense of the place of disease control in a globalized world. It shows how, historically, national, colonial, international and global issues have been enmeshed in the development of modern public health responses. It demonstrates the connections between nationalism and the use of the 'hygienic shield' of border regulation. I can recommend it to all those who want an informed analysis of the historical roots of current concerns about global pandemics. - Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK These wide-ranging and probing essays are an essential guide to the new and sometimes frightening world of biocommunication, biopreparedness and biosecurity. Together they reveal the larger biological and microbial dimensions of globalization and outline a telling post-colonial critique of the contemporary politics of national and international health. - Warwick Anderson, University of Wisconsin, US

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SANJOY BHATTACHARYA Lecturer at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK THEODORE M. BROWN Professor and Chair of History and Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine and of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, USA RICHARD J. COKER Reader in Public Health and Policy at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK IAN CONVERY Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Central Lancashire, UK MARCOS CUETO Professor at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia of Lima, South America ELIZABETH FEE Chief of the History of Medicine Section, the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA DAVID P. FIDLER Professor of law and Harry T. Ice Faculty Fellow at Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, USA CLAIRE HOOKER Holder of the NH&MRC Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Health and based at the University of Toronto, Canada ALAN INGRAM Lecturer in Geography at University College London, UK RENISA MAWANI Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at The University of British Columbia, Canada ERIC MYKHALOVSKIY Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, York University, Canada ALEXANDRA MINNA STERN Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and American Culture at the University of Michigan, USA CAROLYN STRANGE Director of Graduate Studies, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian National University, Australia MIRIAM TICKTIN Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA LORNA WEIR Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, York University, Canada JOHN WELSHMAN Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University, UK PATRICK ZYLBERMAN Senior Researcher at the CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-INSERM-EHESS, Paris, France

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