Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World

By Hilary Marland and Catherine Cox

Book Overview

The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137303220
• ISBN13: 9781137303226
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"