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

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137444665
• ISBN13: 9781137444660
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"