The vaccinators : smallpox, medical knowledge, and the "opening" of Japan
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
eBook, English, ©2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, ©2007