1. "Debordering" public health: the changing patterns of health border in modern Europe.
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Zylberman P
- Subjects
- Asia, Communicable Disease Control methods, Europe, Global Health history, History, 18th Century, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century, Hospitals, Isolation history, Malaria history, Malaria prevention & control, Politics, Quarantine history, World Health Organization history, Communicable Disease Control history, Public Health Practice history
- Abstract
According to David Fidler, the governance of infectious diseases evolved from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century as a series of institutional arrangements: the International Sanitary Regulations (non-interference and disease control at borders), the World Health Organization vertical programs (malaria and smallpox eradication campaigns), and a post-Westphalian regime standing beyond state-centrism and national interest. But can international public health be reduced to such a Westphalian image? We scrutinize three strategies that brought health borders into prominence: pre-empting weak states (eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century); preventing the spread of disease through nation-building (Macedonian public health system in the 1920s); and debordering the fight against epidemics (1920-1921 Russian-Polish war and the Warsaw 1922 Sanitary Conference).
- Published
- 2020
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