Beriberi in modern Japan : the making of a national disease /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bay, Alexander R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2012.
Series:	Rochester studies in medical history.
Subjects:	Beri-beri > Japan > History. Diet > Japan > History.

Table of 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.