Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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 to develop new forms of control and engagement with its citizens--

• | Author: Mary Augusta Brazelton
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: October 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501739980
• | ISBN-13: 9781501739989