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Viral Reflections: Placing China in Global Health Histories
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 579–588.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and postwar establishment of the World Health Organization; Cold War medical diplomacy; and Chinese models of primary health care during the 1970s. These case studies together show that Chinese physicians and administrators helped shape concepts and practices of “global health” even before that term rose...
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Settler Sensibilities and Environmental Change: Unmaking Malarial Landscapes in Nepal
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 639–662.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Amy Johnson Abstract Malaria eradication arrived in Nepal in the 1950s as part of a global initiative to make malarial landscapes available for land reclamation and universal settlement. This article situates period reports from World Health Organization personnel involved in the Nepal Malaria...
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Beyond Compliance: China, International Organizations, and Global Security
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 277–279.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Committee Against Torture. She also has mini–case studies in her concluding chapter on the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization. Not surprisingly, Kent finds a spectrum of compliance behavior on the part of China: Beijing has been least cooperative with organizations concerned...
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Afterword: Lives Interrupted, Trends Continued?
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
...) has won it various thank yous, 25 but not readmission to the World Health Organization or inclusion in the European Union's initial “safe list” for open travel (despite its remarkable success in crushing the virus at home). The current US government's responses—such as withdrawing from the World...
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Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 300–301.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of the individual who uses the blood replaces it in the system), and voluntary donation. As Copeman reports, in recent years, the World Health Organization has promoted voluntary donation as the safest and most stable route. Paid donors, often from society's lowest socioeconomic rungs, tend to be disproportionately...
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Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 979–980.
Published: 01 November 2020
... global fight against disease. In 1979, for example, the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been eliminated—an achievement predicated on the elimination of the disease in the world's most populous country. A mere decade after its founding, the People's Republic of China (PRC) had...
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Pandemic India: Coronavirus and the Uses of History
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 569–577.
Published: 01 August 2020
... the effect on the global pandemic imagination remains much the same. Through international sanitary conferences (the ancestors of today's World Health Organization) from 1866 onward, attempts were made to bring British India to heel, to shame its sanitary shortcomings, and to establish a system...
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Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 February 2012
... of governance. Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung revisit the public health campaigns against malaria in Taiwan, particularly Japanese efforts in the early twentieth century, and the war against mosquitoes in the 1950s and 1960s sponsored by America and the World Health Organization that involved island-wide DDT...
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Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labor, and International Health Crises
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 789–791.
Published: 01 November 2023
...,” which assesses the interactions between agencies at national, regional, and global levels for infectious disease outbreaks; “Future of Global Health Governance in Asia,” focusing on the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in its attempt to envision future global health governance; “Domestic...
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Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 822–824.
Published: 01 August 2024
... diseases. He traces those efforts from the earliest International Sanitary Conferences in the 1850s through the repeated reformulation of the rules under World Health Organization (WHO) auspices between 1952 and 2005. He then explains pandemic bonds, the World Bank's recent invention to fund epidemic...
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Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 260–261.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of influenza. He draws on World Health Organization archives, interviews, and scientific literature in Chinese and English, as well as ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing and Jiangxi's Poyang Lake, a site where duck farming practices and the intersection of wild and domestic birds posed apparently ideal...
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Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 696–697.
Published: 01 May 2008
..., China ranked 188 out of 191 countries in the World Health Organization's evaluation of fairness in health financing systems. Rachel Murphy identifies similarly burdensome effects in education while highlighting how the shift in official discourse to neoliberal notions of individual responsibility...
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Cora Du Bois (1903–1991)
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 763–764.
Published: 01 August 1991
... during the war, after which she remained with the State Department until 1949, serving as Chief of the Southeast Asian Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. Subsequently, she was a consultant for the World Health Organization (1950-51) and Director of Research for the Institute 763 764...
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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 403–404.
Published: 01 May 2006
... was unsuitable for human contact. Two thirds of China s cities fail to meet standards set by the World Health Organization for acceptable levels of total suspended particulates. Chapters 4 through 6 are really the greatest contribution of The River Runs Black, because here the institutional and governmental...
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SARS, Governance, and the Globalization of Disease
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 706–708.
Published: 01 August 2005
... was constrained to bend to post-Westphalian imperatives in the court or perhaps the theater of international opinion. In the nal chapter, Fidler lucidly explore the implications of this post-Westphalian condition, worrying about the World Health Organization s ability to discipline sovereignty in the interests...
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Barrio Gacao: A Study of Village Ecology and the Schistosomiasis Problem
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (3): 403.
Published: 01 May 1961
...) is endemic in the area and second, the Philippine Government and the World Health Organization have cooperated to establish a Schistosomiasis Control Pilot Project near Palo. Coller and his associates undertook the fieldwork which is the basis for this report at the request of the Project. The stated aim...
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Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled out of Control
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Journal of Asian Studies 11591359.
Published: 26 March 2025
... that they would dist rib ute free passes to local tourist attractions. Amid mounting conc erns that the World Health Organization would declare the coronavirus a public health emergency on the eve of the holiday, which would surely be a major humiliation (230), Xi Jinping gave the order...
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The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy
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Journal of Asian Studies 11591369.
Published: 26 March 2025
... STUDIES 84:2 May 2025 loc al authorities proceeded in hosting a gala and ann ounced that they would dist rib ute free passes to local tourist attractions. Amid mounting conc erns that the World Health Organization would declare the coronavirus a public health emergency on the eve...
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From Betel-Chewing to Tobacco-Smoking in Indonesia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 529–547.
Published: 01 May 1985
... of Malaya Press . Wilkinson R. J. 1959. A Malay-English Dictionary . London : MacMillan . World Health Organization . 1979 . Controlling the Smoking Epidemic: Report of the WHO Expert Committee on Smoking Control . N.p. : World Health Organization . Yule H. , and Burnell A. C...
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Queer Diasporas
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 827–829.
Published: 01 August 2001
... argues, led to the World Health Organization and Asian states' neglect of HIV-prevention programs, creating the conditions for an HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region that might have been avoided. The two essays on Japan, while contributing to the "queering" ofJapanese studies, belie the diasporic intent...
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