Farewell to the God of Plague : Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China / Miriam Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Miriam, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Medical care.

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

Medical policy.

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

Schistosomiasis.

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

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

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 author 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. From the Eyes at the Top: Overview of the Campaign

Part II. The Campaign Nobody Wanted: Structural and Economic Underpinnings to Rural Resistance

Part III. The Three Arms of the Campaign: Education, Prevention, and Treatment

Part IV. Government Benevolence? The Nonhealth Benefits of Health Campaigns

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520963641

0520963644

OCLC:

931534121