Mass Vaccination : : Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China /

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

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 mi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Brazelton, Mary Augusta,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.) :; 9 b&w halftones, 1 map
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Table of 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

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