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050	0	0	_aRC627.B45 _bB29 2012
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100	1		_aBay, Alexander R., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBeriberi in modern Japan : _bthe making of a national disease / _cAlexander R. Bay.
264		1	_aRochester, New York : _bUniversity of Rochester Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aRochester studies in medical history
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2017).
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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 -- Conclusion.
520			_aIn modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) became a public health problem that cut across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. During an age of empire building for the Japanese nation, incidence rates in the military ranged from 30 percent in peacetime to 90 percent during war. Doctors and public health officials called beriberi a "national disease" because it festered within the bodies of the people and threatened the health of the empire. Nevertheless, they could not agree over what caused the disease, attributing it to a diet deficiency or a microbe.<BR><BR> In<I>Beriberi in Modern Japan</I>, Alexander R. Bay examines the debates over the etiology of this "national disease" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Etiological consensus came after World War I, but the struggle at the national level to direct beriberi prevention continued, peaking during wartime mobilization. War served as the context within which scientific knowledge of beriberi and its prevention was made. The story of beriberi research is not simply about the march toward the inevitable discovery of "the beriberi vitamin," but rather the history of the role of medicine in state-making and empire-building in modern Japan. <BR><BR> Alexander Bay is assistant professor of history at Chapman University.
650		0	_aBeri-beri _zJapan _xHistory.
650		0	_aDiet _zJapan _xHistory.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781580464277
830		0	_aRochester studies in medical history.
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