'The age of universal contagion': History, disease and globalization

Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-17

  Bashford, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230288904     Document Type: Chapter

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