| Publication |
2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Since its emergence in the nineteenth
century, public health has primarily
been the charge of nation-states acting
to maintain the health of populations.1
In addition to taking steps to prevent
disease, governments deploy the rhetoric
of health and "hygiene" to police the
behavior and movements of immigrants
and colonial subjects.2 Yet the mobility
of microbes that circulate "through air
travel, commerce, and the circuits of
capital"3 has given rise to transnational
institutions such as the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and the World Health
Organization, which track disease vulnerability
worldwide and pursue improvement
in the health of world populations.
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