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1. Isolation

   Places and Practices of Exclusion

   Edited by Alison Bashford, Carolyn Strange

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion. The essays in this collection...

   Published May 7th 2003 by Routledge
2. Contagion

   By Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and...

   Published June 27th 2001 by Routledge