Title: Farewell to the god of plague
Description: "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 book 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"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Treatment, Medical care, Medical policy, Prevention, Schistosomiasis, History, Medical care, china, Therapy, Preventive Health Services, Health Policy, History, 20th Century, Bilharziose, Landbevölkerung, Medizinische Versorgung, Prävention, China
Places: China
Time periods: 20th century