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Mass Vaccination : Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China / Mary Augusta Brazelton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (258 p.) : 9 b&w halftones, 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501739996
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4709510904 23
LOC classification:
  • RA638 .B698 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Journey to the Southwest -- 2. Legacies of Warlords and Empires -- 3. Producing Immunity across the Hinterlands -- 4. The Emergence of Mass Immunization in Wartime Kunming -- 5. Nationalizing Mass Immunization amid Civil War and Revolution -- 6. Vaccination in the Early PRC, 1949–58 -- 7. Mass Immunization in East Asia and Global Health, 1960–80 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: ‹p›‹b›"‹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's most populous and increasingly powerful country."‹/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'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'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'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›

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Journey to the Southwest -- 2. Legacies of Warlords and Empires -- 3. Producing Immunity across the Hinterlands -- 4. The Emergence of Mass Immunization in Wartime Kunming -- 5. Nationalizing Mass Immunization amid Civil War and Revolution -- 6. Vaccination in the Early PRC, 1949–58 -- 7. Mass Immunization in East Asia and Global Health, 1960–80 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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‹p›‹b›"‹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's most populous and increasingly powerful country."‹/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'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'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'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›

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