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"Loathsome And Dangerous": Health Screening In A Globalized World, Gabriel Hearn-Desautels
"Loathsome And Dangerous": Health Screening In A Globalized World, Gabriel Hearn-Desautels
Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal
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"As the world has become steadily more interdependent over the last century, disease has been able to spread with increasing ease. As a consequence of this new danger, the international community has changed the way that it understands contagion, and public health has taken on new roles and new meanings around the world. I argue that the globalization of public health and the relatively new perception of diseases as “global” threats have dramatically altered practices of health screening, both at the border and beyond. Above all, these changes …