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The modern epidemic : a history of tuberculosis in Japan /
Through a historical and comparative analysis of modern Japan's epidemic of tuberculosis, William Johnston illuminates a major but relatively unexamined facet of Japanese social and cultural history: the history of the tuberculosis epidemic. He utilizes a broad range of sources, including medic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University,
1995.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
162. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Through a historical and comparative analysis of modern Japan's epidemic of tuberculosis, William Johnston illuminates a major but relatively unexamined facet of Japanese social and cultural history: the history of the tuberculosis epidemic. He utilizes a broad range of sources, including medical journals and monographs, archaeological evidence, literary works, ethnographic data, and legal and government documents to reveal how this and similar epidemics have been the result of social changes that accompanied the process of modernization. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-412) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781684173020 1684173027 |