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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 UniversityPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501739996
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA638 .M377 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Legacies of warlords and empires -- Producing immunity across the hinterland -- The emergence of mass immunization in wartime Kunming -- Nationalizing mass immunization in civil war and revolution -- Vaccination in the early People's Republic, 1949-58 -- Mass immunization in East Asia and global health, 1960-80.
Subject: "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"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Journey to the southwest -- Legacies of warlords and empires -- Producing immunity across the hinterland -- The emergence of mass immunization in wartime Kunming -- Nationalizing mass immunization in civil war and revolution -- Vaccination in the early People's Republic, 1949-58 -- Mass immunization in East Asia and global health, 1960-80.

"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"--

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