Katherine A. Mason is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.
发表于2024-12-22
Infectious Change 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 人类学 公共卫生 医学人类学 社会学 中国 医学 海外中国研究 美国
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 July 2003 the disease had disappeared, but it left an indelible change on public health in China. 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 recounts the rapid transformation as young, highly trained biomedical scientists flooded into local public health institutions, replacing bureaucratic government inspectors who had dominated the field for decades. Infectious Change grapples with how public health in China was reinvented into a prestigious profession in which global impact and recognition were paramount—and service to vulnerable local communities was secondary.
政治转型:爱国卫生运动,人民—>现代公共卫生体系,人口;the “common”:an idealized world of modernity, science, and trust that they hoped through their work to be able to find abroad and build at home,作为一种理想落实于现实的张力和错位, the common being served vs. the populations being governed;professional project and moral project
评分很好读,非典之后的公共卫生体系。公共卫生面向的公共是谁,服务和管理的对象不一致不仅是中国问题,也是全球问题。对西方科学共同体的想象和向往,以西方为标准的专业准则的遵守,难以带来在地的改变和有效性。从公共卫生的特殊性,不应把人抽象化的角度去理解关系、人情,基层工作尤其是毛时代基层的重要性。提到的很多关于信息、信任、基层的问题,在这次疫情中都有所体现
评分the ethics of ethics
评分大概兩個半月前,大家都說要看這本書,非常符合當時國內的疫情管理情況。彼時大家大約都在質疑quarantine,本書第四章講當年深圳有關H1N1的應對非常精彩,大約也切合兩個半月前大家的理解。我當時實在沒有心情讀,現在找出來讀了一遍,似乎感觸有些不同,但有趣的是,同樣也能在書中找到很多與現在疫情控制的映照與切合之處。歷史不會重複,但多多少少會押韻,誠哉斯言,大概也說明了本書寫得確實很有價值。頁8,“prevention first”是「預防為主」(yufang weizhu), 這裡寫成了 (yufang weizhi),後面的glossary倒是寫對了;頁157等處的 “huoluan”也許是“hunluan”(混亂)?
评分感觉都认识好多她采访的人……但很多东西和我的经验都是相冲突的。对公卫和临床的关系也描述的太简单了,好像是公卫不屑于和人家一起混似的——实际上权力关系到底如何,到底谁羡慕谁,背后有什么职业和权力的斗争都没有太多涉猎,非常可惜。关心“素质”、“关系”、“流动人口”真的是又有时代感又有学科差异感……
Infectious Change 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书