Mass vaccination : citizens' bodies and state power in modern China / Mary Augusta Brazelton.
- Brazelton, Mary Augusta, 1986-
- Date:
- 2019
- Books
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Description
"This book reveals that the mass vaccination campaigns that eradicated smallpox and controlled other infectious diseases in China had a longer history, rooted in the work of researchers in China's southwest hinterlands during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and provided a means for the state to develop new forms of control and engagement with its citizens"-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Physical description
xvii, 237 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Journey to the southwest -- Legacies of warlords and empires -- Producing immunity across the hinterlands -- The emergence of mass immunization in wartime Kunming -- Nationalizing mass immunization amid civil war and revolution -- Vaccination in the early PRC, 1949-58 -- Mass immunization in East Asia and global health, 1960-80 -- Epilogue.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineFEO.251Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781501739989
- 1501739980