Chapter 9 'Suspect' screening the limits of Britain's medicalised borders, 1962-1981

Chapter 9 'Suspect' screening the limits of Britain's medicalised borders, 1962-1981

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Like their peers across western Europe, Australia and the Americas, large segments of the British public and a significant proportion of Britain's medical establishment have enthusiastically promoted medical screening (and de facto medical selection) of would-be migrants since World War II. Mor...

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Main Author: Bivins, Roberta (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2021
Series:Rethinking borders
Subjects:
Medical anthropology
History of medicine
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Migration, immigration & emigration
medical borders; racialised migrants; health controls; medical inspection; United Kingdom; Commonwealth; migration; National Health Service; medical surveillance
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