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Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 : Alien Prescriptions?.

Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aldous, Christopher
Otros Autores: Suzuki, Akihito, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Colección:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 Alien prescriptions?; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Parameters: public health, welfare and medicine in Occupied Japan; The politics of public health: Crawford Sams and the Public Health and Welfare Section; Methodology and sources; 1 Confronting epidemics; Learning from Europe; Hygiene police, hygiene associations and military hygiene; Identifying microbes; Battling microbes: acute infectious diseases; Conclusion; 2 The limits of disease prevention.
  • Meeting the challenge of chronic infectious diseasesThe exigencies of war; Conclusion; 3 'Controlling wildfire diseases'; Framing the challenge; Confronting smallpox and typhus; Cholera and diphtheria; Conclusion; 4 'We're cleaning up Japan'; Disease trends: immunization versus environmental controls; Vector control; Sanitary teams or eisei kumiai?; Night soil and water supply; Conclusion; 5 Nutrition and disease; Diet and disease; Measuring nutrition; Promoting animal protein; Conclusion; 6 Chronic infectious diseases; The challenge of tuberculosis; Conflicts of purpose over venereal disease.
  • Conclusion7 The health centre; The new core of the people's health; Failure of the old health centre system; Post-war reform at the centre; Building the new system; Conclusion; Conclusion; The politics of public health and the limits of Occupation; Acute and chronic infectious diseases: a collaborative approach; Legacies of Occupation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.