The modern epidemic
Subtitle: a history of tuberculosis in Japan
By: William Johnston.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ;; 162
Publisher: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Tuberculosis -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.; Tuberculosis -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Through a historical and comparative analysis of modern Japan's epidemic of tuberculosis, William Johnston illuminates a major but relatively unexamined facet of Japanese social and cultural history: the history of the tuberculosis epidemic.

He utilizes a broad range of sources, including medical journals and monographs, archaeological evidence, literary works, ethnographic data, and legal and government documents to reveal how this and similar epidemics have been the result of social changes that accompanied the process of modernization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-412) and index.