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Author:

Brazelton, Mary Augusta, 1986- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvii, 237 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Vaccination--China--History--20th century.
Vaccination--Yunnan Sheng--Yunnan Sheng--History--20th century.
Immunology--History--China--History--20th century.
Medical policy--China--History--20th century.
Immunology--Research.
Medical policy.
Vaccination.
China.
China--Yunnan Sheng.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

ISBN:

1501739980
9781501739989

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1079865961

LCCN:

2019008045

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)