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

By:

Jannetta, Ann Bowman, 1932-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780804779494
080477949X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vaccinators.DDC classification:

614.5 210952 23

LOC classification:

RC183.7.J3

NLM classification:

2007 H-055
WC 588

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 social upheaval.

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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 social upheaval.

English.

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