Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China by Gross, Miriam

Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520288836)

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Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China by Gross, Miriam

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

$70.00
Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China by Gross, Miriam

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

$70.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Miriam Gross
ISBN-10: 0520288831
ISBN-13: 9780520288836
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2016
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/29/2016 pg. 18
By Miriam Gross
By Miriam Gross
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Miriam Gross is Assistant Professor jointly in the history department and in the department of international and area studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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