Farewell to the God of Plague
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Farewell to the God of Plague

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Farewell to the God of Plague

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780520288836
eBook ISBN
9780520963641
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. PART I: FROM THE EYES AT THE TOP: OVERVIEW OF THE CAMPAIGN
  7. PART II: THE CAMPAIGN NOBODY WANTED: STRUCTURAL AND ECONOMICN UNDERPINNINGS TO RURAL RESISTANCE
  8. PART III: THE THREE ARMS OF THE CAMPAIGN: EDUCATION, PREVENTION, AND TREATMENT
  9. PART IV: GOVERNMENT BENEVOLENCE? THE NONHEALTH BENEFITS OF HEALTH CAMPAIGNS
  10. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index