The vaccinators: smallpox, medical knowledge, and the "opening" of Japan
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1. Verfasser: Jannetta, Ann Bowman 1932- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California Stanford University Press c2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Confronting smallpox -- Jenner's cowpox vaccine -- Engaging the periphery -- The Dutch connection: Batavia, Nagasaki, and Edo -- Constructing a network: the Ranpō physicians -- The vaccinators -- Engaging the center
By the mid-19th century, when Japan was still largely closed to the West, smallpox epidemics had killed an estimated ten percent of the Japanese population. This text details the appalling cost of Japan's almost 300 year isolation and examines in depth a nation on the cusp of political and social upheaval
Beschreibung:xviii, 245 p.
ISBN:9780804779494
080477949X
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0804754896

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