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• W2736549489 abstract "Reviewed by: Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic by Katherine A. Mason Robert Peckham Katherine A. Mason. Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. xiii + 252 pp. Ill. $27.95 ( 9780804798921). Fourteen years after the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, the memory of SARS has begun to fade. In Hong Kong, students born in the late 1990s have little recollection of the disruption it caused. All that they know about the highly pathogenic coronavirus, which reached the city from neighboring Guangdong province in February 2003, comes secondhand: it has been gleaned from family stories, media reports, and movies, and from the institutionalization of SARS as a textbook event in the city's post-colonial history. In the tai chi garden of the Hong Kong Park, a Fighting SARS memorial incorporates bronze busts of healthcare workers who died in the outbreak. SARS lives on in other ways, however. In the face of new emerging viral threats, such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) that triggered panic in South Korea in 2015, SARS is evoked by way of analogy. It continues to function as an exemplary twenty-first-century disease and a yardstick for gauging the success and failure of post-2003 epidemic responses. The impact of SARS has undoubtedly been most profound in the changes it has induced in attitudes, behaviors, and institutional organizations. Katherine A. Mason's new book, Infectious Change, shows how the experience of SARS in the People's Republic of China facilitated the reinvention of the country's public health system. The disease struck at a moment when the state had begun to overhaul its cranky disease control and prevention apparatus in a process undermined by inadequate funding, a dearth of personnel, and insufficient political will. SARS provided all of these things, Mason writes, remaking an administrative experiment into a sophisticated new system of disease control and transforming what had been a technical trade into a prestigious biomedical profession (p. 3). Infectious Change investigates how competing interests have molded public health institutions in China since 2003. A particular strength of the book is the way it focuses on a specific site in the Pearl River Delta—albeit contextualized with material from other locales—to broach larger issues of professionalization, trust, and ethics in public health, weaving personal stories into a larger, compelling narrative of change. An assiduous ethnographic approach registers the voices of those struggling to operate within a rapidly changing environment. In so doing, Mason reminds us that a health system is an interactive space of overlapping, colliding, and ever-shifting interests. A central argument in Infectious Change is that the global reorientation and biomedicalization of China's public health since SARS has produced a growing disjunction between an imported model of professional service and the demands of the populations that this system claims to manage. Assumptions about the collective needs of the Chinese people—an agglomeration with common interests—no longer hold in a country that has become far more diverse since Deng Xiaoping's liberalization from the late 1970s and 1980s. The mushrooming immigrant city of Tianmai (a pseudonym), where Mason conducted most of her field [End Page 464] work, exemplifies this new socially divided world. At the same time, cosmopolitan public health professionals in China increasingly subscribe to membership of an imagined community of transnational science and global health. Mason's interest is in examining how real-life situations, notably the 2009 H1N1 pandemic dealt with in a chapter evocatively titled Pandemic Betrayals, put pressure on these constructions, exposing their fictive fabric. This is an excellent, thought-provoking book, which will appeal to those with interests in contemporary China, medical anthropology, and histories of health and disease. It yields insights that will illuminate broader debates, such as those that pivot on the challenges inherent in promoting the global as a category in health. In the 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata, primary health was identified as a key element in grappling with health inequalities. Mao's promotion of community- based paramedics, or barefoot doctors (chijiaoyisheng), as part of his mass health campaigns seemed to provide a model grassroots approach, which was endorsed..." @default.
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