Beriberi in Modern Japan - The Making of a National Disease

The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theorists and contagionists from 1880 to 1940.

List of 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

About the author

Alexander R. Bay

Product details

• Authors: Alexander R Bay, Alexander R. Bay
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9781580464277
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-427-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 160 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous