Farewell to the god of plague : Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China / Miriam Gross.

"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,...

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Main Author: Gross, Miriam, 1969- (Author)
Other title:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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