Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 Alien prescriptions?

• Main Authors: Aldous, Christopher, Suzuki, Akihito
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2012; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Subjects: Asian Studies; History of Medicine; Japan > History > Allied occupation, 1945-1952; Japanese History; Medical History; Public health; Public health - Japan - History - 20th century; infectious; acute; Tuberculin Testing; School Lunch Programme; soil; Public Health Nurses; typhus; BCG Vaccine; SCAP; Indirect Occupation; Health Centre Law; Epidemic Typhus; chronic; venereal; Welfare Ministry; disease; Endemic Typhus; epidemic; Nagayo Sensai; night; Chronic Infectious Diseases; diseases; Tuberculosis Control; Alien Prescriptions; Diphtheria Toxoid; Occupied Japan; Cholera Vaccine; Venereal Disease Control; Sanitary Teams; Venereal Disease; BCG Immunization; Typhus Vaccine; Dry Skim Milk; Nippon Times; Acute Infectious Diseases

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, t...