The Vaccinators : Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the `Opening' of Japan

在日本，直到十九世紀中葉，天花在所有出生的孩子中佔據了約20％的生命 - 其中大部分是在五歲之前。當冷漠的德川幕府沒有回應時，在西醫和醫療技術方面學到的日本醫生成為Jennerian疫苗接種的主要傳播者 - 一種預防天花的新醫療技術。 Jannetta追溯其來自英格蘭鄉村的情況，調查了Jennerian疫苗接種到明治前日本的傳播。

依據荷蘭語、日語、俄語和英語來源，該書將日本醫生視為社會和製度變革的主要推動者，展示他們如何使用獎學金、婚姻和收養的傳統策略來建立新的地方，國家和國際網絡。十九世紀上半葉。 Vaccinators詳細介紹了日本近300年的孤立令人震驚的成本，並深入研究了一個處於政治和社會動蕩的國家。

In 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.

   Ann Jannetta (Autor)

Publisher:Stanford University Press 

ISBN:    978-0804754897 

原價   US 45 台幣價 NT$1397