American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan /

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Tuberculosis ran rampant in Japan during the late Meiji and Taisho years (1880s-1920s). Many of the victims of the then incurable disease were young female workers from the rural areas, who were trying to support their families by working in the new textile factories. The Japanese government of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Perelman, Elisheva A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Missions, American > Japan > History.
Missions, Medical > Japan > History.
Public health > Japan > History.
Tuberculosis > Japan > History.
Japan > Social conditions > 1868-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the story of something that did not happen
  • "Dead, shriveled trees" : factory girls in Meiji and Taishō Japan
  • "The snow-white shawl" : tuberculosis in Meiji and Taishō Japan
  • "The enemy of mankind" : the struggle against tuberculosis
  • "Justifying the liabilities which had been incurred" : political strife over tuberculosis
  • "The Nazareth of the Orient" : the particular work of the evangelists
  • "Now Is the day for Japan" : the YMCA
  • "The soldiers must have the real fighting spirit" : the Salvation Army
  • "The great gulf fixed" : Rudolf Teusler and William Vories
  • Afterword : "let the work go on"
  • Conclusions : cui bono?

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