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Mass vaccination : citizens' bodies and state power in modern China /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brazelton, Mary Augusta, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Journey to the southwest
  • Legacies of warlords and empires
  • Producing immunity across the hinterland
  • The emergence of mass immunization in wartime Kunming
  • Nationalizing mass immunization in civil war and revolution
  • Vaccination in the early People's Republic, 1949-58
  • Mass immunization in East Asia and global health, 1960-80.