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

"Mass Vaccination 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."
― International Journal of Asian Studies

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.Mass Vaccination 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.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.

Autor

Mary Augusta Brazelton is University Lecturer in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

Inhalt

Introduction: A Mobile Lifestyle, A Middle Way of Living
Prologue: From Official Privileges to Consumer Goods
1. Driving Alone Together: Sociality, Solidarity, and Status
2. Family Cars, Filial Consumer-Citizens: Becoming Properly Middle Class
3. The Emerging Middle Class and the Car Market: Mobilities and Trajectories
4. Car Crash, Class Encounter: Anxiety of Mobility
5. Bidding for a License Plate: The Importance of Being a Free and Proper Consumer
6. Parking: Contesting Space in Middle-Class Complexes
Epilogue: Politics of Transformation

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