“Debordering” public health: the changing patterns of health border in modern Europe

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 ver...

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Main Author: Patrick Zylberman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz
Series:História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v27s1/0104-5970-hcsm-27-s1-0029.pdf
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description 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).
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“Debordering” public health: the changing patterns of health border in modern Europe
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
international public health
border
epidemics
history
title “Debordering” public health: the changing patterns of health border in modern Europe
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title_short “Debordering” public health: the changing patterns of health border in modern Europe
title_sort debordering public health the changing patterns of health border in modern europe
topic international public health
border
epidemics
history
url http://www.scielo.br/pdf/hcsm/v27s1/0104-5970-hcsm-27-s1-0029.pdf
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