China and the cholera pandemic restructuring society under Mao
"Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward campaign organized millions of Chinese peasants into communes in a misguided attempt to rapidly collectivize agriculture with disastrous effects. Catastrophic famine lingered as the global cholera pandemic of the early 1960s spread rampantly through the inf...
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Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Md.
University of Pittsburgh Press, Project MUSE
2021©2021, 2021
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| Series: | Histories and ecologies of health
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Global pandemic and mobility
- The origins of the epidemic: migrants and refugees in Cold War Asia
- Mobile people, mobile disease
- Part 2: Contagion, social divisions, and borders
- Social divisions, epidemiology, and disease distribution
- Quarantine and isolation: the rise of multiple borders
- Part 3: Pandemic emergency, data, and social structure
- Comprehensive inoculation, rural rhythms, and compiling registers
- Stool samples, archiving patients, and statistical politics
- "No. 2 disease": a national secret
- Includes bibliographical references and index