China and the cholera pandemic : restructuring society under Mao /
"Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the inf...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Histories and ecologies of health
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Global pandemic and mobility
- The origins of the epidemic: migrants and refugees in Cold War Asia
- Mobile people, mobile disease
- Part 2: Contagion, social divisions, and borders
- Social divisions, epidemiology, and disease distribution
- Quarantine and isolation: the rise of multiple borders
- Part 3: Pandemic emergency, data, and social structure
- Comprehensive inoculation, rural rhythms, and compiling registers
- Stool samples, archiving patients, and statistical politics
- "No. 2 disease": a national secret.