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Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China

Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China

Gross, Miriam

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceChinese History

ISBN10: 0520288831
ISBN13: 9780520288836
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 19 2016
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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, the campaign triumphed, but not because of its touted mass-prevention campaign. Instead, success came from its unacknowledged treatment arm, carried out jointly by banished urban doctors and rural educated youth. More broadly, the author reconsiders the relationship between science and political control during the ostensibly antiscientific Maoist era, discovering the important role of grassroots science in regime legitimation and Party control in rural areas.

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