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.
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48 primary booksHarvard East Asian Monographs is a 48-book series with 48 primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, Andrew Gordon, and 46 others.
