Beriberi in modern Japan : the making of a national disease / Alexander R. Bay.

  • Bay, Alexander R.
Date:
2012
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Publication/Creation

2012

Physical description

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: medicine, power, and the rhetoric of empire -- The geography of affliction: beriberi in Edo and Tokyo -- Putting the laboratory at the center -- Beriberi: disease of imperial culture -- Empire and the making of a national disease -- The science of vitamins and the construction of ignorance -- The rice germ debate: total mobilization and the science of vitamins in the 1930s -- Conclusion.

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    History of Medicine
    FDK.26.AA8-9
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  • 9781580464277
  • 1580464270