Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-45412-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 213 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2776 g

Reihe: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

The volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marland, H.

Cox, C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Bashford, University of Sydney, Australia
Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick, UK
Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, public health physician
Katherine Foxhall, King's College London, UK
Letizia Gramaglia, University of Warwick, UK
Anne Mac Lellan, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
John Welshman, Lancaster University, UK