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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811306303321

Autore

Fang Xiaoping

Titolo

China and the Cholera Pandemic : Restructuring Society under Mao / / Xiaoping Fang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-8229-4662-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps ;

Collana

Histories and ecologies of health

Disciplina

614.5/140951

614.5140951

Soggetti

Plague

Cholera

Plague - China

Cholera - China - History

History

China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 infected waters of southeastern coastal China. Confronted with a political crisis and the seventh global cholera pandemic in recorded history, the communist government committed to social restructuring in order to affirm its legitimacy and prevent



transmission of the disease. Focusing on the Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Province, the area most seriously stricken by cholera at the time, Xiaoping Fang demonstrates how China's pandemic was far more than a health incident; it became a significant social and political influence during a dramatic transition for the People's Republic. China and the Cholera Pandemic reveals how disease control and prevention, executed through the government's large-scale, clandestine anticholera campaign, were integral components of its restructuring initiatives, aimed at restoring social order. The subsequent rise of an emergency disciplinary health state furthered these aims through quarantine and isolation, which profoundly impacted the social epidemiology of the region, dividing Chinese society and reinforcing hierarchies according to place, gender, and socioeconomic status"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702495803321

Titolo

Stigma and barriers to care [[electronic resource] ] : caring for those exposed to war, disaster and terrorism / / edited by Robert J. Ursano, Carol S. Fullerton, Mark C. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethesda, MD : , : Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress : , : Dept. of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Defense Centers of Excellence, , 2011

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 118 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

UrsanoRobert J. <1947->

FullertonCarol S

BrownMark C

Soggetti

Health services accessibility - United States

Stigma (Social psychology) - United States

Medical care - United States

Mental health services - United States

Health Services Accessibility

Social Stigma

Mental Health Services

Conference Proceedings.

Conference papers and proceedings.

United States



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A conference sponsored by Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Defense Centers of Excellence."