From international to global

T he publication of Medicine at the border is relevant from the perspective of how we as citizens manage our health and are managed by local, national, regional and supra-national institutions looking to preserve global safety and health. The volume collectively shows how the history of infectious disease is central to the political, legal, and commercial history of nationalism, colonialism, and internationalism. The chapters are thematically organised into three parts: (a) the connection between national history and the emergence of international health structures over the twentieth century; (b) the issue of territorial health regulation and the movement of people across national borders; and (c) contemporary global epidemiological surveillance networks that increasingly bypass the nation-state

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• Framing Disease

  Charles E Rosenberg, Janet Golden•Framing Disease•1992

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