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Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Epidemics and Mortality in Early Modern Japan
Contributors:
By (Author) Ann Bowman Jannetta
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Public health and preventive medicine
Dewey:
952.025
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
248
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
340g
Description
Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on the medical literature on epidemic diseases, on previously unknown evidence in Buddh
