Medicine At The Border Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

The threat of global pandemic disease is currently mobilizing experts, governments, and the exploding industry in 'security'; and yet this has all happened before. Medicine at the Border explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Alison Bashford 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. The contributions show how infectious disease has been central to the political, legal, and commercial history of nationalism, colonialism, and internationalism over the modern period.

Alison Bashford is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, UK and is author of many studies that bring world history, environmental history and medical history together. Her most recent book is Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (2014). She has taught at Harvard University, the Australian National University, and for many years was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sydney.

1. Introduction: 'The Age of Universal Contagion': Disease, History and Globalization; A.Bashford
PART I: WORLD HEALTH: COLONIAL AND NATIONAL HISTORIES
2. Civilizing the State: Borders, Weak States and International Health in Modern Europe; P.Zylberman
3. Yellow Fever Crusade: US Colonialism, Tropical Medicine, and the International Politics of Mosquito Control, 1900-20; A.M.Stern
4. WHO-led or WHO-managed? Re-assessing the Smallpox Eradication Programme in India, 1960-80; S.Bhattacharya
5. The World Health Organisation and the Transition from 'International' to 'Global' Health; T.M.Brown, M.Cueto and E.Fee
PART II: NATIONAL SECURITY: MIGRATION, TERRITORY AND BORDER REGULATION
6. Where is the Border? Turberculosis Screening in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1950-2000; I.Convery, J.Welshman and A.Bashford
7. Medical Humanitarianism in and beyond France: Breaking Down or Patrolling Borders?; M.Ticktin
8. Screening out Diseased Bodies: Immigration, Mandatory HIV Testing, and the Making of a Healthy Canada; R.Mawani
9. Passports and Pestilence: Migration, Security and Contemporary Border Control of Infectious Diseases; R.J.Coker and A.Ingram
PART III: GLOBALIZATION: DETERRITORIALIZED HEALTH?
10. Drawing the Lines: Danger and Risk in the Age of SARS; C.Hooker
11. Biosecurity: Friend or Foe for Public Health Governance?; D.P.Fidler
12. Postcard from Plaguetown: SARS and the Exoticisation of Toronto; C.Strange
13. The Geopolitics of Global Public Health Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century; L.Weir and E.Mykhalovskiy