Mass vaccination : citizens' bodies and state power in modern China /
Mary Augusta Brazelton.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University .
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"--
9781501739996
2019009149
Vaccination--History--China--20th century. Vaccination--History--China--Yunnan Sheng--20th century. Immunology--Research--History--China--20th century. Medical policy--History--China--20th century.