Farewell to the God of Plague (eBook)

Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China

Miriam Gross (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
376 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96364-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Farewell to the God of Plague reassesses the celebrated Maoist health care model through the lens of Mao's famous campaign against snail fever. Using newly available archives, Miriam Gross documents how economic, political, and cultural realities led to grassroots resistance. Nonetheless, the campaign triumphed, but not because of its touted mass-prevention campaign. Instead, success came from its unacknowledged treatment arm, carried out jointly by banished urban doctors and rural educated youth. More broadly, the author reconsiders the relationship between science and political control during the ostensibly antiscientific Maoist era, discovering the important role of ';grassroots science' in regime legitimation and Party control in rural areas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: 20th century medical policy china • antiscientific maoist era • Chairman Mao • chinese antiscience mao • chinese health care • Chinese Medicine • chinese political control • government controlled medical care • grassroots resistance to maoist • Maoist china • maoist health care • Medical conditions • medicine in china • Schistosomiasis • schistosomiasis china • schistosomiasis treatment • science and politics • snail fever • treatment of snail fever
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96364-4 / 0520963644
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96364-1 / 9780520963641