Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China
Gross, Miriam. Farewell to the god of plague : Chairman Mao’s campaign to deworm China. Oakland, California : University of California press, 2016. XV-357 p. ISBN : 978-0-520-28883-6
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, the campaign triumphed, but not because of its touted mass-prevention campaign. Instead, success came from its unacknowledged treatment arm, carried out jointly by banished urban doctors and rural educated youth. More broadly, the author reconsiders the relationship between science and political control during the ostensibly antiscientific Maoist era, discovering the important role of “grassroots science” in regime legitimation and Party control in rural areas.
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- Page personnelle de Miriam Gross (University of Oklahoma)
Voir aussi
- La thèse (Ph. D.) de Miriam Gross, Chasing snails : anti- schistosomiasis campaigns in the People’s Republic of China, soutenue en 2010 à l’université de Californie à San Diego, est disponible en ligne en texte intégral et en libre accès sur eScholarship University of California.
Comptes rendus
- Brazelton, Mary Augusta. East Asian Science, Technology and Society, (2016) ; pré-publié en ligne le 30 août 2016. doi:10.1215/18752160-3684747 (consulté le 28 janvier 2017) (accès restreint)
- De Ambrogi, Marco. Behind the painted screen: the truth on Mao’s snail fever campaign. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2016, vol. 16, n° 11, p. 1236.URL : http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473-3099(16)30412-1.pdf (consulté le 28 janvier 2017) (accès restreint)
- Pinna Pintor, Matteo. Food, Nutrition and Health in Development : A SOAS Research Cluster, January 22, 2017. URL : https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/food-nutrition-and-health-in-development/2017/01/22/book-review-farewell-to-the-god-of-plague/ (consulté le 28 janvier 2017)
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Monique Abud (29 janvier 2017). Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao’s Campaign to Deworm China. Carnets du Centre Chine (CNRS/EHESS). Consulté le 16 décembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mfz1


