Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World
Description
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.
Keywords
HistoryModernScienceWorldSocial HistorySocial ScienceDisease & Health IssuesPolitical ScienceColonialism & Post-Colonialism
2013Book
Author(s)Catherine Cox
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137303226
LanguageEnglish
