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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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Autor principal: Gross, Miriam, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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