The vaccinators [electronic resource] : smallpox, medical knowledge, and the "opening" of Japan / Ann Jannetta.

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 soci...

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