Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China, by Mary Augusta Brazelton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. vii+237 pp. US$47.95 (cloth).

2021 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 235-237
Author(s):  
Fan Ka Wai
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
Mass Vaccination ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Cornell University

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Greenough ◽  
Stuart Blume ◽  
Christine Holmberg
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
Mass Vaccination ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Vaccination Campaigns

Government-organised vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to shape the immunity of whole populations.1 Like other pervasive expressions of state power – taxing, policing, conscripting – mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. As a rule, controversy clings to immunisation programmes,...

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