The Vaccinators : Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the 'Opening' of Japan /
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, becam...
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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