Chapter 8 Quarantine sanitization, colonialism and the construction of the 'contagious Arab' in the Mediterranean, 1830s-1900

This chapter investigates the setting up of a network of lazarettos along the southern and eastern littorals of the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century. The fundamental thesis is that these lazarettos, constructed and frequently directed by Europeans, sustained the expansion of Western colon...

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Main Author: Chircop, John (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2018
Series:Social Histories of Medicine
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