Mass Vaccination (eBook)

Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China

Mary Augusta Brazelton (Autor)

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2019
258 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4000-8 (ISBN)

Infos

<p><b>"e;<i>Mass Vaccination</i> comfortably establishes itself as the leading and indeed essential monograph on the history of vaccination in modern China; a much-needed contribution to the history of medicine that will undoubtedly become a textbook in our age of vaccine wars, but which by far surpasses the historiographical needs of the moment by delivering a nuanced and systematic history of mass vaccination in the world&#39;s most populous and increasingly powerful country."e;</b> <i>International Journal of Asian Studies</i></p><p>While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement. In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC&#39;s public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly diseases.</p><p><b><i>Mass Vaccination</i></b> tells the story of the people, materials, and systems that built these campaigns, exposing how, by improving the nation&#39;s health, the Chinese Communist Party quickly asserted itself in the daily lives of all citizens. This crusade had deep roots in the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when researchers in China&#39;s southwest struggled to immunize as many people as possible, both in urban and rural areas. But its legacy was profound, providing a means for the state to develop new forms of control and of engagement. Brazelton considers the implications of vaccination policies for national governance, from rural health care to Cold War-era programs of medical diplomacy.</p><p>By embedding Chinese medical history within international currents, she highlights how and why China became an exemplar of primary health care at a crucial moment in global health policy.</p>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: 20th century chinese history • 20th century history of medicine • biopolitical state • books to understand chinese public health • chinese biopolitics • Chinese history • chinese immunization systems • chinese immunology • chinese public health • Chinese studies • chinese vaccination history • communist china health policies • east asian institute • East Asian Studies • epidemiology • eradication of smallpox in china • globa • Global Health • healthcare under communist china • health policy • health systems • history of medicine • history of the people's republic of china • immunization and social control • immunology • mass immunization in east asia • mass immunization programs • mass vaccination campaings in china • medicalization • medical policy in 20th century china • modern Chinese history • modern chinese immunology research history • modern chinese vaccination history • People's Republic of China • philosophy of science • Politics of medicine • politics of medicine in china • public health and safety • public health, Chinese Communist Party, history of medicine, global health • second Sino-Japanese War • sociological study of medicine • vaccinations in china • vaccine wars • weisheng • what is biopolitics
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-4000-8 / 1501740008
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-4000-8 / 9781501740008