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Title: [Book review] Epidemie, sanita e controllo dei confini
Authors: Chircop, John
Keywords: Public health -- Italy -- History
Borderlands -- Italy -- History
Border security -- Italy -- History
Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Italy -- History
Medical policy -- Italy -- History
Public health administration -- Italy -- History
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Mediterranean
Citation: Chircop, J. (2017). [Review of the book Epidemie, sanita e controllo dei confini, by D. Palermo]. Mediterranea -Ricerche Storiche, XIV(147), 720-724.
Abstract: This volume is a collection of seven essays treating the history of public health and the control of terIitorlal borders In different Italian states from the 16th to the early 19th centuries. The publication Is sensitive to contemporary events, coming at a time when strict border controls - biometric screening, medical examinations, policing and containment - have been re-established to manage the massive Influxes of migrants crossing the southern European borders. The use of these public health instruments by the state to control its territorial borders is in many aspects a repetition of the old quarantine measures which were usually adopted during epidemics for the containment, isolation, physical examination, and disinfection of those crossing over the state's territorial borders as early as the 15th century.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103700
ISSN: 1828230X
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