Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan / / Ann Bowman Jannetta.
Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on the medical literature on epi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- I. Introduction
- II. Epidemic Diseases and Human Populations
- III. The Japanese Sources
- IV. Smallpox: The Most Terrible Minister of Death
- V. Measles: An Epidemiological Puzzle
- VI. Dysentery and Cholera: Early and Late Arrivals
- VII. Epidemics and Famine
- VIII. Conclusions
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Backmatter