Title Just one child : science and policy in Deng's China / Susan Greenhalgh

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008] ©2008

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Description xxii, 403 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm Contents Introduction : an anthropology of science making and policymaking -- History : the "ideology" before the "science" -- A Chinese Marxian humanism of population -- The scientific revolution in Chengdu -- Ally recruitment in Beijing -- Scientific policymaking in Zhongnanhai -- Conclusion : why an epistemic approach matters Summary "China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. Just One Child situates these science- and policy making practices in their broader contexts -- the scientization and statisticalization of socio-political life -- and provides the most detailed and incisive account yet of the origins of the one-child policy. In examining the larger issues relating to the interconnections between science and politics, this groundbreaking study develops a new, epistemic approach to the study of public policy and shows how, in China, scientific policymaking led directly to social suffering on a vast scale while giving birth to a technoscientific state."--Book cover Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-394) and index Notes English Description based on print version record Subject Birth control -- China -- History -- 20th century. Reproductive rights -- China. Reproductive rights. Women -- Social conditions -- 20th century. Family Planning Policy -- history. Birth Rate. Family Planning Services -- history. History, 20th Century. Population Control -- history. Population Growth. Public Policy. Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Birth Rate. Community Health Services. Data Collection. Demography. Environment and Public Health. Epidemiologic Measurements. Epidemiologic Methods. Family Planning Policy. Family Planning Services. Health Care Economics and Organizations. Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services. Delivery of Health Care. Health Services. History, 20th Century. History, Modern 1601- History. Humanities. Information Science. Investigative Techniques. Policy. Population Characteristics. Population Control. Population Dynamics. Population Growth. Pregnancy Rate. Public Health. Public Policy. Reproductive Health Services. Social Control Policies. Social Control, Formal. Social Sciences. Sociology. Vital Statistics. SUBJECT China -- Population policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114711 China. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002681 LC no. 2007038377 ISBN 0520253388 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520253396 (paperback: alk. paper) 9780520253384 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520253391 (paperback: alk. paper)

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