LEADER 04274oam 2200685I 450 001 9910809948803321 005 20240131150157.0 010 $a1-136-49880-X 010 $a1-283-44301-5 010 $a9786613443014 010 $a0-203-14282-9 010 $a1-136-49881-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203142820 035 $a(CKB)2550000000087745 035 $a(EBL)957697 035 $a(OCoLC)798533421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600366 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12271496 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600366 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10599181 035 $a(PQKB)10245065 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC957697 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL957697 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10529260 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL344301 035 $a(OCoLC)785777859 035 $a(OCoLC)706022631 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB140375 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000087745 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReforming public health in occupied Japan, 1945-52 $ealien prescriptions? /$fChristopher Aldous and Akihito Suzuki 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in the modern history of Asia ;$v73 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-68149-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 Alien prescriptions?; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Parameters: public health, welfare and medicine in Occupied Japan; The politics of public health: Crawford Sams and the Public Health and Welfare Section; Methodology and sources; 1 Confronting epidemics; Learning from Europe; Hygiene police, hygiene associations and military hygiene; Identifying microbes; Battling microbes: acute infectious diseases; Conclusion; 2 The limits of disease prevention 327 $aMeeting the challenge of chronic infectious diseasesThe exigencies of war; Conclusion; 3 'Controlling wildfire diseases'; Framing the challenge; Confronting smallpox and typhus; Cholera and diphtheria; Conclusion; 4 'We're cleaning up Japan'; Disease trends: immunization versus environmental controls; Vector control; Sanitary teams or eisei kumiai?; Night soil and water supply; Conclusion; 5 Nutrition and disease; Diet and disease; Measuring nutrition; Promoting animal protein; Conclusion; 6 Chronic infectious diseases; The challenge of tuberculosis; Conflicts of purpose over venereal disease 327 $aConclusion7 The health centre; The new core of the people's health; Failure of the old health centre system; Post-war reform at the centre; Building the new system; Conclusion; Conclusion; The politics of public health and the limits of Occupation; Acute and chronic infectious diseases: a collaborative approach; Legacies of Occupation; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aWhilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams, the key figure in the Occupation charged with carrying them out. This book tests the validity of this dominant narrative, interrogating its chief claims, exploring the influences acting on it, and critically examining the reform's broader significance for the Occupation and its legacies for both J 410 0$aRoutledge studies in the modern history of Asia ;$v73. 606 $aPublic health$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aJapan$xHistory$yAllied occupation, 1945-1952 615 0$aPublic health$xHistory 676 $a362.10952/09044 700 $aAldous$b Christopher.$01595761 701 $aSuzuki$b Akihito$f1963-$01595762 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809948803321 996 $aReforming public health in occupied Japan, 1945-52$93916836 997 $aUNINA