Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Medicine, Power, and the Rhetoric of Empire
- 1 The Geography of Affliction: Beriberi in Edo and Tokyo
- 2 Putting the Laboratory at the Center
- 3 Beriberi: Disease of Imperial Culture
- 4 Empire and the Making of a National Disease
- 5 The Science of Vitamins and the Construction of Ignorance
- 6 The Rice Germ Debate: Total Mobilization and the Science of Vitamins in the 1930s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Medicine, Power, and the Rhetoric of Empire
- 1 The Geography of Affliction: Beriberi in Edo and Tokyo
- 2 Putting the Laboratory at the Center
- 3 Beriberi: Disease of Imperial Culture
- 4 Empire and the Making of a National Disease
- 5 The Science of Vitamins and the Construction of Ignorance
- 6 The Rice Germ Debate: Total Mobilization and the Science of Vitamins in the 1930s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Beriberi in Modern JapanThe Making of a National Disease, pp. 159 - 204Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012