Book ID: CBB485857820

Quarantine: Local and Global Histories (2016)

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Bashford, Alison (Editor)


European Union series (Red Globe Press)


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 344 pp.
Language: English

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.

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Review Lucia Dacome (2018) Review of "Quarantine: Local and Global Histories". Social History of Medicine (pp. 676-677). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mercuriale, Girolamo
Adria L. Imada
Kingsbury, Benjamin
Qing Jin
Stern, Alexandra Minna
Sihn, Kyu-hwan
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Korean Journal of Medical History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Vesalius
Journal of Southern History
Hispanic American Historical Review
Publishers
Manchester University Press
Bridget Williams
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of California Press
Otago University Press
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Quarantine
Public health
Hospitals and clinics
Emigration; immigration
Epidemics
Naval and maritime medicine
People
Mercuriale, Girolamo
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
United States
England
New Zealand
Venice (Italy)
Brazil
Philadelphia, PA
Institutions
United States. Public Health Service
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