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" Migration, health and ethnicity in the modern world "
edited by Catherine Cox, director, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin and Hilary Marland, professor of history, University of Warwick, UK.
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724470
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b544189
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edited by Catherine Cox, director, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin and Hilary Marland, professor of history, University of Warwick, UK.
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Migration, health and ethnicity in the modern world\ edited by Catherine Cox, director, Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin and Hilary Marland, professor of history, University of Warwick, UK.
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Science, technology, and medicine in modern history.
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1137303239
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: 9781137303233
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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.
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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.
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Emigration and immigration -- Health aspects.
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World health -- History -- 19th century.
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World health -- History -- 20th century.
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RA408.M5E358 2013
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Catherine Cox
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Hilary Marland
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