Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan /

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Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on the medical literature on epi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Jannetta, Ann Bowman, 1932- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Mortality.
Epidemics.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Mortalite > Japon > Histoire.
Mortality > Japan > History.
Epidemics > Japan > History.
Japan.
Japon > Histoire > 1600-1868 (Époque des Tokugawa)
Japan > History > Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Epidemic Diseases and Human Populations
  • III. The Japanese Sources
  • IV. Smallpox: The Most Terrible Minister of Death
  • V. Measles: An Epidemiological Puzzle
  • VI. Dysentery and Cholera: Early and Late Arrivals
  • VII. Epidemics and Famine
  • VIII. Conclusions
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter.

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