Medicalising Borders
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'Medicalising Borders makes it abundantly clear that medicine cannot play Pontius Pilatus and wash its hands in innocence.'
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Leo van Bergen, Leiden University Medical Centre, Medicine, Conflict and Survival
The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, political and social sciences, but epidemics and pandemics are a matter of geography: foci and vectors of communicable diseases continue to test the efficacy of medical control at state borders. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Manchester University Press
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781526154675
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
Anmeldelser
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'Medicalising Borders makes it abundantly clear that medicine cannot play Pontius Pilatus and wash its hands in innocence.'
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Leo van Bergen, Leiden University Medical Centre, Medicine, Conflict and Survival