Title: Beriberi in modern Japan : the making of a national disease /
Authors: Bay, Alexander R.
Year: 2012
Subjects: Public Health history; Epidemiology history; Thiamine Deficiency history; Beriberi history; Beri-beri Japan History.; Diet Japan History.; Japan
Contents: Introduction: medicine, power, and the rhetoric of empire -- The geography of affliction: beriberi in Edo and Tokyo -- Putting the laboratory at the center -- Beriberi: disease of imperial culture -- Empire and the making of a national disease -- The science of vitamins and the construction of ignorance -- The rice germ debate: total mobilization and the science of vitamins in the 1930s -- Conclusion.