Tuberculosis control and institutional change in Shanghai, 1911–2011  Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2566653B

  Author(s)

  Core, Rachel S.

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  Hong Kong 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789888754267 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Hong Kong University Press  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  216 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Medicine / Health

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Core, Rachel S.

  Publisher

  Hong Kong University Press  

• Description

  Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011 This volume is the first book-length monograph on the most widespread and deadly infectious disease in China, both historically and today: tuberculosis (TB). Weaving together interviews with data from periodicals and local archives in Shanghai, Rachel Core examines the rise and fall of TB control in China from the 1950s to the 1990s. The answer to this, Core argues, lies in the socialist work-unit system. Under the work-unit system, the vast majority of people had guaranteed employment, a host of benefits tied to their workplace, and there was little mobility—factors that made the delivery of medical and public health services possible in both urban and rural areas. The dismantling of work units amid wider market reforms in the 1980s and 1990s led to the rise of temporary and casual employment and a huge migrant worker population, with little access to health care, creating new challenges in TB control. This study of Shanghai has major implications for institutional research on disease control. It will provide valuable lessons for historians, social scientists, public health specialists, and many others working on public health infrastructure on both the national and global level.