The vaccinators: smallpox, medical knowledge, and the "opening" of Japan
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Main Author: Jannetta, Ann Bowman 1932- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California Stanford University Press c2007
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:xviii, 245 p.
ISBN:9780804779494
080477949X
9780804754897
0804754896

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