Mass vaccination : citizens' bodies and state power in modern China / Mary Augusta Brazelton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brazelton, Mary Augusta, 1986- author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccination--China--History--20th century.

Vaccination.

Vaccination--China--Yunnan Sheng--History--20th century.

Immunology--Research--China--History--20th century.

Immunology.

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

Medical policy.

Immunology--Research.

History.

China.

China--Yunnan Sheng.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Journey to the southwest

Legacies of warlords and empires

Producing immunity across the hinterlands

The emergence of mass immunization in wartime Kunming

Nationalizing mass immunization amid civil war and revolution

Vaccination in the early PRC, 1949-58

Mass immunization in East Asia and global health, 1960-80

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brazelton, Mary Augusta, 1986- Mass vaccination.

ISBN:

9781501739989

1501739980

OCLC:

1079865961