Medicine at the Border

1. ‘The Age of Universal Contagion’: History, Disease and Globalization

1. ‘The Age of Universal Contagion’: History, Disease and Globalization
Alison Bashford

Part I. World Health: National and Colonial Histories

2. Civilizing the State: Borders, Weak States and International Health in Modern Europe
Patrick Zylberman

3. Yellow Fever Crusade: US Colonialism, Tropical Medicine, and the International Politics of Mosquito Control, 1900–1920
Alexandra Minna Stern

4. WHO-led or WHO-managed? Re-assessing the Smallpox Eradication Program in India, 1960–1980
Sanjoy Bhattacharya

5. The World Health Organization and the Transition from ‘International’ to ‘Global’ Health
Theodore M. Brown, Marcos Cueto, Elizabeth Fee

Part II. National Security: Migration, Territory and Border Regulation

6. Where is the Border?: Screening for Tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1950–2000
Ian Convery, John Welshman, Alison Bashford

7. Medical Humanitarianism in and Beyond France: Breaking Down or Patrolling Borders?
Miriam Ticktin

8. Screening out Diseased Bodies: Immigration, Mandatory HIV Testing, and the Making of a Healthy Canada
Renisa Mawani

9. Passports and Pestilence: Migration, Security and Contemporary Border Control of Infectious Diseases
Richard Coker, Alan Ingram

Part III. Globalization: Deterritorialized Health?

10. Drawing the Lines: Danger and Risk in the Age of SARS
Claire Hooker

11. Biosecurity: Friend or Foe for Public Health Governance?
David P. Fidler

12. Postcard from Plaguetown: SARS and the Exoticization of Toronto
Carolyn Strange

13. The Geopolitics of Global Public Health Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century
Lorna Weir, Eric Mykhalovskiy

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Medicine, History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History