Mass Vaccination

Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China

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ID19938135
AuthorsMary Augusta Brazelton (0000-0001-5941-9576, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages258
Publication date2019-10-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMass Vaccination (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781501739996
OpenAlexW2980918606
ISBN9781501739996
Open LibraryOL33741824M
Google Books7vKPDwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received8

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

China · Mass vaccination · Physics · Political science · Vaccination · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research · Virology · china · Immunology · Medical policy · Public health

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