The Vaccinators
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-8690-4 (ISBN)
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, 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 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. The Vaccinators 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.
Ann Jannetta is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan and "Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan" in What Do We Know about Asian Population History?
CONTENTS List of Illustrationsxxx List of Tablesxxx Abbreviations and Conventions Usedxxx Prefacexxx Introduction1 1. Confronting Smallpox000 2. Jenner's Cowpox Vaccine000 3. Engaging the Periphery000 4. The Dutch Connection: Batavia, Nagasaki and Edo000 5. Constructing a Network: The Ranpo Physicians000 6. The Vaccinators000 7. Engaging the Center000 Conclusion000 Glossary Appendix 1. Japanese Names Mentioned in Text, with Birth and Death Years00 Appendix 2. Philipp Franz von Siebold's Students at Narutaki000 Appendix 3. Alphabetized List of Otamagaike Sponsors000 Notes000 References000 Index000
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.2.2012 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 tables, 3 figures, 2 illustrations, 3 maps |
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 358 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8047-8690-9 / 0804786909 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8047-8690-4 / 9780804786904 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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