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Chapter 22 - Mass Migration and Health in the Anthropocene Epoch

from Section 4 - Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Christine Straehle
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

In a piece published in The Atlantic in December 1994, the authors discuss Jean Raspail’s novel, The Camp of the Saints, published in 1973. The novel depicts a dystopian future in which migrants from poor countries arrive on the shore of rich Europe

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Global Health
Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 293 - 303
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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