Krista Maglen
- Assistant Professor, Department of History
Education
- B.A. at University of Melbourne
- D. Phil. at University of Glasgow
Contact Information
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| Ballantine Hall, Rm. 742 |
| (812) 855-7581 |
Background
Originally from Australia, I am a Medical Historian with a particular interest in disease control in international shipping and migration. My work explores the particularities of infectious disease prevention, particularly quarantine, in British, Australian and Western Pacific ports in the latter part of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century and the often related introduction of medical restrictions to immigration in the same period. My research and writing conceptualises ports as particular geographical and representational spaces where notions of national, racial and biological borders were negotiated. My work focuses, primarily, on how different attempts to regulate and deregulate this space were informed by the often conflicting demands of national and international interests and varying concepts of ‘indigenous’ and ‘exotic;’ and how the exigencies of medical border controls interplayed with contemporary understanding of disease and ‘the diseased.’
I offer various courses in the sub-discipline of the History of Medicine, including a course that examines the various contexts in which the body has been managed, provided for, shaped and disciplined in history.
Selected Awards
Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University Of Oxford, 2002-2005
University Of Glasgow History Of Medicine Prize, 2002
Research Interests
- Modern
- History of Medicine
- Immigration
- Maritime
Publication Highlights
Books
[Co-Editor with Mark Freeman and Elenor Gordon] Medicine, Law and Public Policy in Scotland 1850-1980: Essays Presented to Anne Crowther (Dundee University Press, Forthcoming)
Articles
‘Inside Truths: ‘Truth’ and Mental Illness in the Australian Asylum Seeker and Detention Debates,’ Monash Bioethics Review, Vol. 26, No. 4, (October 2007), pp. 47-66
‘‘In This Miserable Spot Called Quarantine:’ The Healthy and Unhealthy in Nineteenth Century Australian and Pacific Quarantine Stations’ Science in Context, Vol. 19, No. 3, (September, 2006), pp. 317-336
‘Importing Trachoma: The Introduction into Britain of American Ideas of an ‘Immigrant Disease’, 1892-1906’, Immigrants and Minorities, Vol. 25, No. 1, (March, 2005), pp. 80-99
‘The First Line of Defence’: British Quarantine and the Port Sanitary Authorities in the Nineteenth Century’, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 3, (2002), pp. 413-428
