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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fang, Xiaoping (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
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.