Mass inoculation and rural rhythms : local agents, population data, and restructured social systems during the cholera pandemic in China, 1962–1965
This article examines the dynamics between the mass inoculation campaigns and China’s restructured rural social system during the 1962–1965 cholera pandemic, with a focus on the role of local agents and population data during the integration of the medical and administrative systems. The inocula...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153519 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This article examines the dynamics between the mass inoculation campaigns
and China’s restructured rural social system during the 1962–1965 cholera
pandemic, with a focus on the role of local agents and population data
during the integration of the medical and administrative systems. The
inoculation campaigns not only harnessed local agents and household
and accounting information provided by the broader social restructuring
initiatives but also directly contributed to these by compiling inoculation
registers and certificates. These campaigns included the administrative and
medical systems and combined social, production, and epidemiological data
in a reciprocal process. The mass inoculations therefore functionalized
social control; facilitated the formation and top-down imposition of a
new, broad-reaching social structure; and contributed to the formation
of a sedentary society. In this sense, these inoculation campaigns were
a significant social and political exercise rather than just a pathological,
medical, and health incident. |
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