Reforming public health in occupied Japan, 1945-52 : alien prescriptions? / / Christopher Aldous and Akihito Suzuki

• Autore: Aldous Christopher
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10952/09044
• Soggetto topico: Public health - Japan - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Japan History Allied occupation, 1945-1952
• Altri autori: SuzukiAkihito <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reforming 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 ; Meeting 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 ; Conclusion7 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Whilst 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reforming public health in occupied Japan, 1945-52
• ISBN: 1-136-49880-X; 1-283-44301-5; 9786613443014; 0-203-14282-9; 1-136-49881-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809948803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; ; 73.