The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan Tapa dura - 2007 - 1st Edición
de Ann Jannetta
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In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born--most of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa shogunate failed to respond to this health crisis, Japanese physicians, learned in Western medicine and medical technology, became the primary disseminators of Jennerian vaccination--a new medical technology to prevent smallpox. Tracing its origins from rural England, Jannetta investigates the transmission of Jennerian vaccination, via various foreign and domestic networks, to and throughout pre-Meiji Japan. Relying on Dutch, Japanese, Russian, and English sources, the book treats Japanese physicians as leading agents of social and institutional change, showing how they used traditional strategies involving scholarship, marriage, and adoption to forge new local, national, and international networks in the first half of the nineteenth century. With an interesting parallel to the recent SARS crisis, The Vaccinators details the appalling cost of Japan's almost three-hundred-year isolation and examines in depth a nation on the cusp of political and social upheaval.
Detalles
- Título The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan
- Autor Ann Jannetta
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 264
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Fecha de publicación 2007-05-23
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780804754897 / 0804754896
- Peso 1.08 libras (0.49 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.04 x 6.27 x 0.83 pulgadas (22.96 x 15.93 x 2.11 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Smallpox - Vaccination - Japan - History, Smallpox vaccine - Japan - History
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2006035450
- Dewey Decimal Code 614.521
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Choice, 02/01/2008, Page 1216
- Scitech Book News, 09/01/2007, Page 91
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