Book ID: CBB907982802

Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic (2016)

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Mason, Katherine (Author)


Stanford University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 272 pp.
Language: English

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 July 2003 the disease had disappeared, but it left an indelible change on public health in China. 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 machine―one that frequently failed to serve the Chinese people. Mason recounts the rapid transformation as young, highly-trained biomedical scientists flooded into local public health institutions, replacing bureaucratic government inspectors who had dominated the field for decades. Infectious Change grapples with how public health in China was reinvented into a prestigious profession in which global impact and recognition were paramount―and service to vulnerable local communities was secondary.

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Authors & Contributors
Keck, Frédéric
Cerbini, Francesca
Fearnley, Lyle
Jong-Koo Lee
Tyshenko, Michael G
Soon, Wayne
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Infectious diseases
Prevention and control of disease
Medicine
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Places
China
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Singapore
United States
Canada
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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