Quarantine
Title | Quarantine PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Bashford |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 427 |
Release | 2016-07-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350307599 |
Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge. This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine islands and isolation hospitals across the world, bringing their local and global pasts and present into view. An international cast of leading experts examine the enduring historical problems of migration and mobility, segregation, prevention and protection by states with different interests in freedoms, health and commerce. With case studies from as far afield as the Red Sea, Hong Kong and New Zealand, and from the early modern period forward, this book provides an invaluable insight into the history of quarantine.
Quarantine!
Title | Quarantine! PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Markel |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1421443678 |
This riveting story of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892 has been updated with a new preface that tackles the COVID-19 pandemic. Winner, 2003 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health, American Public Health Association In Quarantine! Howard Markel traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is told from the point of view of those involved—the public health doctors who diagnosed and treated the victims, the newspaper reporters who covered the stories, the government officials who established and enforced policy, and, most importantly, the immigrants themselves. Drawing on rarely cited stories from the Yiddish American press, immigrant diaries and letters, and official accounts, Markel follows the immigrants on their journey from a squalid and precarious existence in Russia's Pale of Settlement, to their passage in steerage, to New York's Lower East Side, to the city's quarantine islands. This updated edition features a new preface from the author that reflects on the themes of the book in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering some of the significant problems that face American society today.
Maritime Quarantine
Title | Maritime Quarantine PDF eBook |
Author | John Booker |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 643 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351919849 |
As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine was one of constant concern to Britain. Whilst naturally keen to promote international trade, there was a constant fear of importing potentially devastating diseases into British territories. In this groundbreaking study, John Booker examines the methods by which British authorities sought to keep their territories free from contagious diseases, and the reactions to, and practical consequences of, these policies. Drawing upon a wealth of documentary sources, Dr Booker paints a vivid picture of this controversial episode of British political and mercantile history, concluding that quarantine was a peculiarly British disaster, doomed to inefficiency by the royal prerogative and concerns for trade and individual liberty. Whilst it may not have fatally hindered the economic development of Britain, it certainly irritated the City and the mercantile elites and remained a source of constant political friction for many years. As such, an understanding of British maritime quarantine provides a fuller picture of attitudes to trade, culture, politics and medicine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | Hawaii. Governor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | |
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Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service of the United States
Title | Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Public Health Service |
Publisher | |
Pages | 882 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Health Organisation
Title | Health Organisation PDF eBook |
Author | League of Nations |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Epidemics |
ISBN |
The Federal Reporter
Title | The Federal Reporter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1928 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.