镜与像:免疫学与国家公共卫生治理能力——评《大规模疫苗接种:现代中国的居民身体与国家力量》

Mirror and Image:Immunology and National Capacity for Public Health Governance:A Review of Mass Vaccination:Citizens'Bodies and State Power in Modern China

免疫学是高度社会化的科学,其发展和实践高度依赖强大的国家公共卫生治理能力。《大规模疫苗接种:现代中国的居民身体与国家力量》一书结合中国免疫学史和相关社会史的研究,揭示了中国国家公共卫生治理能力提升对于免疫学成功实践的决定性作用,也从全球卫生的角度阐释了中国对于人类健康水平提升的重要贡献。同时,该书有着可贵的非西方视角,脱离了以往的后殖民研究话语体系,客观介绍了中国自身对于免疫学发展和应用的自主化过程,也揭示了后发国家民众对于免疫学技术应用与西方不同的价值判断。

Immunology is a highly socialized science,whose development and practice are highly dependent on strong national capacity for public health governance.The book"Mass Vaccination:Citizens'Bodies and State Power in Modern China"combines the research of Chinese immunology history and related social history,reveals the decisive role of China's national capacity for public health governance improvement in the successful practice of immunology,and explains China's important contribution to the improvement of human health level from the perspective of global health.At the same time,the book has a valuable non-western perspective,which is divorced from the previous discourse system of postcolonial research.It introduces the process of China's own independence for the development and application of immunology objectively and also reveals the different valuations of the people in less developed countries for the application of immunology technology from the west.