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

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gross, Miriam, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.