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Katherine Mason - Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic - 9780804794435 - V9780804794435
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Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic

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Description for Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.

In February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)—a novel flu-like virus—to over a dozen international hotel guests. SARS went on to kill about 800 people and sicken 8,000 worldwide. By the time it disappeared in July 2003 the Chinese public health system, once famous for its grassroots, low-technology approach, was transformed into a globally-oriented, research-based, scientific endeavor.

In Infectious Change, Katherine A. Mason investigates local Chinese public health institutions in Southeastern China, examining how the outbreak of SARS re-imagined public health as a professionalized, biomedicalized, and technological ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804794435
SKU
V9780804794435
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1

About Katherine Mason
Katherine A. Mason is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

Reviews for Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic
"In this defining ethnography of China's public health system and its complex relation to epidemics, Katherine Mason brilliantly describes health professionals, their struggles to be effective and ethical, the barriers they face, and how they animate the Chinese public health system as a lived reality. Infectious Change is an impressive contribution to both China studies and to medical anthropology!"
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