Thesis ID: CBB001562827

The Exponent of Breath: The Role of Foreign Evangelical Organizations in Combating Japan's Tuberculosis Epidemic of the Early 20th Century (2011)

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Perelman, Elisheva Avital (Author)


University of California, Berkeley
Barshay, Andrew E.


Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Advisor: Barshay, Andrew E.
Physical Details: 207 pp.
Language: English

Tuberculosis existed in Japan long before the arrival of the first medical missionaries, and it would survive them all. Still, the epidemic during the period from 1890 until the 1920s proved salient because of the questions it answered. This dissertation analyzes how, through the actions of the government, scientists, foreign evangelical leaders, and the tubercular themselves, a nation defined itself and its obligations to its subjects, and how foreign evangelical organizations, including the Young Men's Christian Association (the Y.M.C.A.) and The Salvation Army, sought to utilize, as much as to assist, those in their care. With both Japanese government officials and foreign evangelical leaders employing moral entrepreneurism in their approach to the victims of the nation's epidemic, the tubercular became pawns in the relationships between the Meiji and Taisho governments, the Y.M.C.A., The Salvation Army, St. Luke's Hospital, and the Omi Mission. Within this analytical framework, this dissertation also examines such issues as how Protestantism allowed some of the disease's victims to withstand societal stigma, and how its proponents viewed their obligation to their fellow man; how concepts of public health changed when faced with a disease with no known cure, and how much of the attempts to respond to the disease fell victim to partisan politics and personality disputes; how gender affected national, societal, and religious rights, and how disease affected perceptions of gendered behavior. Finally, this work analyzes how the value of human life was parsed and differentiated, particularly vis-à-vis utility to both the Japanese nation and the state of Protestantism in the early 20 th century.

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Authors & Contributors
Siegfried Weichlein
Man-Kong, Wong
Leung, Yuen-Sang
Linda Ratschiller
Holler, Jacqueline
Jo, J.
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Missionaries and missions
Medicine and religion
Public health
Epidemics
Tuberculosis
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Early modern
Modern
Places
Japan
China
Hong Kong
Europe
Africa
New Spain
Institutions
United States. Office of Indian Affairs
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Henry Phipps Institute, Philadelphia
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