According to David Fidler, the governance of infectious diseases evolved from the mid-nineteenth to the twentyfirst century as a series of institutional arrangements: the International Sanitary Regulations (non-interference and disease control at borders), the World Health Organization vertical programs (malaria and smallpox eradication campaigns), and a post-Westphalian regime standing beyond state-centrism and national interest. But can international public health be reduced to such a Westphalian image? We scrutinize three strategies that brought health borders into prominence: pre-empting weak states (eastern Mediterranean in the nineteenth century); preventing the spread of disease through nation-building (Macedonian public health system in the 1920s); and debordering the fight against epidemics (1920-1921 Russian-Polish war and the Warsaw 1922 Sanitary Conference).
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Zylberman, P. (2020). “Debordering” public health: The changing patterns of health border in modern Europe. Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos, 27, 29–48. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702020000300003
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