Sevasti Trubeta is a researcher at the Institute of Childhood Studies, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal
Christian Promitzer is a researcher at the Institute for History, University of Graz
Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University

Introduction: Medicalising borders - Sevasti Trubeta, Christian Promitzer and Paul Weindling
Part I: Quarantine
1 Habsburg border quarantines until 1837: an epidemiological 'iron curtain'? - Sabine Jesner
2 Cholera at the junction of maritime and land routes in nineteenth-century Trieste - UrSka Bratoz
3 Uses of quarantine in the nineteenth century until the Crimean War: examples from south-east Europe - Christian Promitzer
4 Weak state-controlled disease prevention in peripheral border regions: Austrian Bukovina and Dalmatia in late nineteenth century - Carlos Watzka
Part II: (Dis)connections - containment
5 Lazarettos as border filters: expurgating bodies, commodities and ideas, 1800-1870s - John Chircop
6 Sealing borders and containing prisoners: from free movement of migrants to containment in concentration camps - Paul Weindling
7 Locating disease: on the coexistence of diverse concepts of territory and the spread of disease - Sarah Green
8 Fear and panic at the borders: outbreak anxieties in the United States from the colonies to COVID-19 - Amy Lauren Fairchild, Constance A. Nathanson and Cullen Conway
Part III: Selection
9 'Suspect' screening: the limits of Britain's medicalised borders, 1962-1981 - Roberta Bivins
10 A question of hygiene or nationality? Exclusion and non-Jewish labour migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Israel, 2006-2017 - Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida
11 Medicalised borders and racism in the era of humanitarianism - Sevasti Trubeta
Index