“In This Miserable Spot Called Quarantine”: The Healthy and Unhealthy in Nineteenth-Century Australian and Pacific Quarantine Stations (2006)
By examining sources created by people who were detained or employed at the quarantine stations of Australia and the Western Pacific, this article illuminates aspects of the history of disease control that cannot be observed in other source material. Most research examining the history of maritime quarantine has tended to rely on the records of official and government agencies. As a result, discussion has largely been confined to government policy and larger issues of the political, economic, and social consequences of maritime disease control. This article contributes to the historiography by examining personal sources that show how quarantine policy and practice were experienced from the perspective of its participants. They reveal the experiences of otherwise obscured healthy detainees and illuminate agency among quarantined individuals that cannot be observed without these sources.
...MoreArticle Davidovitch, Nadav; Zalashik, Rakefet (2006) Medical Borders: Historical, Political, and Cultural Analyses. Science in Context (p. 309).
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