Author: Dongbei fang yi chuPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Report of the North Manchurian Plague Prevention Service
Author: Dongbei fang yi chuNorth Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports
Author: North Manchurian Plague Prevention ServicePublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Plague Prevention and Politics in Manchuria, 1910–1931
Author: Carl F. NathanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Plague prevention in Manchuria became an urgent matter both of public health and of politics in the 1920s and 1930s. If the virulent pneumonic plague could not be quarantined and suppressed, all North China and even nearby countries might be endangered. If China could not deal with the plague, Japan, Russia, and indeed the whole outside world might be justified in moving into Manchuria to do the job, and China's already limited sovereignty there could be further weakened.
Ethnographic Plague
Author: Christos LynterisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137596856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring the forging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understand medical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of the employment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context of infectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks.
Reports
Author: Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Author: Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains
Author: Christos LynterisPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030267954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways in which animals have come to be framed as ‘epidemic villains’ since the turn of the nineteenth century. Providing epistemological and social histories of non-human epidemic blame, as well as ethnographic perspectives on its recent manifestations, the essays explore this cornerstone of modern epidemiology and public health alongside its continuing importance in today’s world. Covering diverse regions, the book argues that framing animals as spreaders and reservoirs of infectious diseases – from plague to rabies to Ebola – is an integral aspect not only to scientific breakthroughs but also to the ideological and biopolitical apparatus of modern medicine. As the first book to consider the impact of the image of non-human disease hosts and vectors on medicine and public health, it offers a major contribution to our understanding of human-animal interaction under the shadow of global epidemic threat.
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