Farewell to the god of plague : Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China / Miriam Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Miriam, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schistosomiasis--China--Prevention--History--20th century.

Schistosomiasis.

Schistosomiasis--Treatment--China--History--20th century.

Medical policy--China--History--20th century.

Medical policy.

Medical care--China--History--20th century.

Medical care.

Schistosomiasis--Prevention.

Schistosomiasis--Treatment.

History.

China.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Farewell to the God of Plague reassesses the celebrated Maoist health care model through the lens of Mao's famous campaign against snail fever. Using newly available archives, Miriam Gross documents how economic, political, and cultural realities led to grassroots resistance. Nonetheless, the campaign triumphed, but not because of its touted mass-prevention campaign. Instead, success came from its unacknowledged treatment arm, carried out jointly by banished urban doctors and rural educated youth. More broadly, the book reconsiders the relationship between science and political control during the ostensibly antiscientific Maoist era, discovering the important role of 'grassroots science' in regime legitimation and Party control in rural areas"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chairman Mao weighs in : the high politics of the campaign

Dodging leadership in an era of decentralization : structural problems of the 1950s

Denying economic responsibility while brandishing an empty purse

Building the new scientific socialist society : educating the masses

Preventing the unpreventable

The challenges of treatment

Doing the unthinkable : scientifically legitimating party intrusion in the 1950s

Scientific consolidation in the late sixties and seventies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520288836

0520288831

OCLC:

912376896

Publisher Number:

40025793081