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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 1, 2015)
