TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jannetta,Ann Bowman
TI  - The vaccinators: smallpox, medical knowledge, and the "opening" of Japan 
SN  - 9780804779494
AV  - RC183 .V333 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Smallpox
KW  - Vaccination
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Smallpox vaccine
KW  - Diffusion of innovations
KW  - Smallpox Vaccine
KW  - history
KW  - Diffusion of Innovation
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Social Change
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Confronting smallpox --; Jenner's cowpox vaccine --; Engaging the periphery --; The Dutch connection: Batavia, Nagasaki, and Edo --; Constructing a network: the Ranpō physicians --; The vaccinators --; Engaging the center; 2; b
N2  - By the mid-19th century, when Japan was still largely closed to the West, smallpox epidemics had killed an estimated ten percent of the Japanese population. This text 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
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