Infectious change : reinventing Chinese public health after an epidemic

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 disapp...

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1. Verfasser: Mason, Katherine
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif Stanford University Press 2016
Ausgabe:1
Schlagworte:
bioethics
CDC
China
China, Southeast
global health
MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
MEDICAL / Public Health
migration
pandemics
professionalization
Public health
Public health > China, Southeast
Public health administration
Public health administration > China, Southeast
SARS
SARS (Disease)
SARS (Disease) > China, Southeast
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
urbanization
global health
CDC
China
bioethics
migration
SARS
pandemics
urbanization
public health
professionalization
ISBN:9780804798921, 0804798923, 080479443X, 9780804794435, 0804798958, 9780804798952
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Zusammenfassung: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 machine—one that frequently failed to serve the Chinese people. Mason grapples with how public health in China was reinvented into a prestigious profession in which global recognition took precedent over service to vulnerable local communities. This book lays bare the common elements of a global pandemic that too often get overlooked, all of which are being thrown into sharp relief during the present COVID-19 outbreak: blame of "exotic" customs from the country of origin and the poor bearing the most severe consequences. Mason's argument resonates profoundly with our current crisis, making the case that we can only consider ourselves truly prepared for the next crisis once public health policies, and social welfare more generally, are made more inclusive.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index
ISBN:9780804798921
0804798923
080479443X
9780804794435
0804798958
9780804798952
DOI:10.1515/9780804798952