The vaccinators : smallpox, medical knowledge, and the "opening" of Japan /

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 soci...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jannetta, Ann Bowman, 1932-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Smallpox > Vaccination > Japan > History.
Smallpox vaccine > Japan > History.
Smallpox > Japan > History.
Diffusion of innovations.
Smallpox Vaccine > history
Diffusion of Innovation
History, 19th Century
Smallpox > history
Social Change > history
Variole > Vaccination > Japon > Histoire.
Vaccin antivariolique > Japon > Histoire.
Variole > Japon > Histoire.
Innovations > Diffusion.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Diffusion of innovations
Smallpox
Smallpox > Vaccination
Smallpox vaccine
Japan
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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