Mass Vaccination by Mary Augusta Brazelton

Mass Vaccination by Mary Augusta Brazelton

While the eradication of smallpox has long been documented, not many know the Chinese roots of this historic achievement. In this revelatory study, Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly...

At a time when, at least in the United States, mandatory immunizations are increasingly controversial, Mary Augusta Brazelton's monograph, Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China, is a timely and welcome contribution to studies of the history of medicine

(The PRC History Review)

Scholars and students of modern Chinese history and especially 20th-century history of medicine will find this book essential as a platform for exploring the interconnectedness of global health systems and the importance of public health to governance and diplomacy.

- Tina Phillips Johnson, stvincent.edu (The China Quarterly)

Mary Augusta Brazelton's Mass Vaccination is intricately researched, comprehensive, persuasive, and a welcome addition to the recent scholarship on medical networks and governmental legitimacy in twentieth-century China. [T]he book's methodology, thematic intersections, and contemporary resonance can provide lessons to historians of other parts of the world.

(Technology and Culture)

Mass Vaccination comfortably establishes itself as the leading and indeed essential monograph on the history of vaccination in modern China; a much-needed contribution to the history of medicine that will undoubtedly become a textbook in our age of vaccine wars, but which by far surpasses the historiographical needs of the moment by delivering a nuanced and systematic history of mass vaccination in the world's most populous and increasingly powerful country.

(International Journal of Asian Studies)

Mary Augusta Brazelton is University Lecturer in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9781501739989
ISBN 10	1501739980
Title	Mass Vaccination
Author	Mary Augusta Brazelton
Series	Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2019-10-15
Number of pages	277
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