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.

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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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FEO.251
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781501739989
  • 1501739980