Medicalising Borders
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. It deals with fears of contamina… Celý popis ↓
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Medicalising Borders
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. It deals with fears of contamination and the corresponding stereotypes border crossers and migrants are confronted with. By illuminating these issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume starts with historical models of quarantine.
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 At state borders the latter have been subject to the implementation of medical, genetic and biometric screening techniques.
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