Jabs for the Nation: Public Health and the Politics of Mass Immunization in Twentieth-Century China
| Dates: | 23 February 2017 |
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| Times: | 18:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students, General public |
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| Speaker: | Mary Augusta Brazelton |
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The Second World War made vaccination a cornerstone of public health
in China. When Japan invaded eastern China in 1937, the Nationalist
government moved its wartime capital to Chongqing, in Sichuan. Physicians
and biomedical researchers fled with the Nationalists to China’s southwest
borderlands, and many found refuge in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province.
There, a biomedical community emerged whose members sought to control
epidemics by developing vaccines. Their work enfolded Yunnan and most of
western China into a global medical supply network that reached as far as
Buenos Aires, Bucharest, and Cairo. This talk suggests that the gathering of
biomedical professionals in China’s wartime southwest gave vaccination new
meaning as a necessary practice of public health in twentieth-century China.
Speaker
Mary Augusta Brazelton
Role: Lecturer in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine
Organisation: The University of Cambridge
Travel and Contact Information
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Kanaris Theatre
Manchester Museum
Oxford Road
Manchester
Phone: 0161-2752648
Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
