The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition
by Ann Jannetta
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In Japan, as late as the mid-nineteenth century, smallpox claimed the lives of an estimated twenty percent of all children born--most of them before the age of five. When the apathetic Tokugawa shogunate failed to respond to this health crisis, Japanese physicians, learned in Western medicine and medical technology, became the primary disseminators of Jennerian vaccination--a new medical technology to prevent smallpox. Tracing its origins from rural England, Jannetta investigates the transmission of Jennerian vaccination, via various foreign and domestic networks, to and throughout pre-Meiji Japan. Relying on Dutch, Japanese, Russian, and English sources, the book treats Japanese physicians as leading agents of social and institutional change, showing how they used traditional strategies involving scholarship, marriage, and adoption to forge new local, national, and international networks in the first half of the nineteenth century. With an interesting parallel to the recent SARS crisis, The Vaccinators details the appalling cost of Japan's almost three-hundred-year isolation and examines in depth a nation on the cusp of political and social upheaval.
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- Title The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan
- Author Ann Jannetta
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 2007-05-23
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780804754897 / 0804754896
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.27 x 0.83 in (22.96 x 15.93 x 2.11 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Smallpox - Vaccination - Japan - History, Smallpox vaccine - Japan - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006035450
- Dewey Decimal Code 614.521
Media reviews
Citations
- Choice, 02/01/2008, Page 1216
- Scitech Book News, 09/01/2007, Page 91
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