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OverviewIn 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, became the primary disseminators of Jennerian vaccination-a new medical technology to prevent smallpox. Tracing its origins from rural England, Jannetta investigates the transmission of Jennerian vaccination to and throughout pre-Meiji Japan. Relying on Dutch, Japanese, Russian, and English sources, the book treats Japanese physicians as leading agents of social and institutional change, showing how they used traditional strategies involving scholarship, marriage, and adoption to forge new local, national, and international networks in the first half of the nineteenth century. The Vaccinators details the appalling cost of Japan's almost 300-year isolation and examines in depth a nation on the cusp of political and social upheaval. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ann JannettaPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9780804786904ISBN 10: 0804786909 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 27 February 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAnn Jannetta has done a wonderful job of presenting not only the medical and political but also the artistic, intellectual, religious, and social context of the introduction of Jennerian vaccination to Japan . . . The Vaccinators is a wonderful addition to the scholarly literature on the Dutch enclave in Japan, on nineteenth-century Japan, on the history of medicine in Japan, and on the history of the worldwide diffusion of vaccination. --C. Michele Thompson, East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine Ann Jannetta has done a wonderful job of presenting not only the medical and political but also the artistic, intellectual, religious, and social context of the introduction of Jennerian vaccination to Japan ... The Vaccinators is a wonderful addition to the scholarly literature on the Dutch enclave in Japan, on nineteenth-century Japan, on the history of medicine in Japan, and on the history of the worldwide diffusion of vaccination. - C. Michele Thompson, East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine Jannetta's narrative is genuinely engaging, and it is enriched by her use of primary sources in multiple languages ... She delves deeply into decidedly local, personal interactions while keeping in view a broader, global historical context. This is quite an achievement. - Brian Platt, Journal of Social History The Vaccinators provides a meticulously documented and compelling account of the invention and spread of smallpox vaccination and the vicissitudes of its introduction into Japan in the early 19th century ... This is a work of immense value to scholars and student of late Edo and early Meju history, society and culture, the history of rangaku (Dutch studies) and ranpo (Dutch medicine) in Japan, the history of science and medicine, public health and epidemiology. Jannetta is to be congratulated on her prodigious achievement. - Penelope Shino, IIAS Newsletter Jannetta has accomplished an admirable task in tracing the technology transfer, which encompasses Europe, the Americas, and Asia, utilizing extensive sources written in multiple (some classical) languages. The book is useful for students and teachers in world history, medical history, environmental history, and Japanese history, society, and politics. For scholars interested in the changing relationships between people and microbes, and the dynamics of the nineteenth-century global commercial/intellectual networks and the Tokugawa seclusion policy, Jannetta's study will provide a wealth of insights. - Sumiko Otsubo, Review of Policy Research [A] concise and insightful medical history of late Tokugawa Japan, focusing on Japan's adoption of Jennerian vaccination against smallpox during the early 19th century ... Jannetta's historical research provides a valuable avenue to understanding how contact with Western knowledge helped Japan break away from self-imposed isolation toward modernization. - CHOICE The Vaccinators provides a meticulously documented and compelling account of the invention and spread of smallpox vaccination and the vicissitudes of its introduction into Japan in the early 19th century ... This is a work of immense value to scholars and student of late Edo and early Meju history, society and culture, the history of rangaku (Dutch studies) and ranpo (Dutch medicine) in Japan, the history of science and medicine, public health and epidemiology. Jannetta is to be congratulated on her prodigious achievement. --Penelope Shino, IIAS Newsletter. Author InformationAnn Jannetta is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan and ""Public Health and the Diffusion of Vaccination in Japan"" in What Do We Know about Asian Population History? Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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