Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000
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Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 is a historical study that examines how concerns about disease, migration, and national security have shaped global health policies and border controls from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
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| Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12639247 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 Context triple: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000]
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A.
Infections and Inequalities
"Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
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B.
Occidentosis: A Plague from the West
Occidentosis: A Plague from the West is a seminal 1962 Iranian philosophical and political essay that critiques Western cultural and economic domination and its corrosive effects on non-Western societies, especially Iran.
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C.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
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D.
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
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E.
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 Target entity description: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 is a historical study that examines how concerns about disease, migration, and national security have shaped global health policies and border controls from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
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A.
Infections and Inequalities
"Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
-
B.
Occidentosis: A Plague from the West
Occidentosis: A Plague from the West is a seminal 1962 Iranian philosophical and political essay that critiques Western cultural and economic domination and its corrosive effects on non-Western societies, especially Iran.
-
C.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
-
D.
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
-
E.
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Alison Bashford
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notableWork
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Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000
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