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The Shifting Epistemological Foundations of Cholera Control in Japan (1822-1900) (2014)

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Cet article, qui s’appuie sur des sources japonaises du xixe siècle, explore les manières dont le choléra est alors compris au Japon. Les membres de la communauté médicale japonaise utilisent les théories médicales chinoises et européennes jusqu’à ce que ces dernières, à partir des années 1870, dominent le discours sur le choléra. Néanmoins la maladie, d’abord perçue comme un mal endémique dans les années 1870, est par la suite assimilée à un envahisseur étranger. Les représentations du choléra ne reposent alors ni sur des statistiques ni sur aucune preuve scientifique mais sur l’association, culturelle et politique, du choléra à une maladie de l’immonde., By focusing on primary sources from 19th-century Japan, this essay examines how the Japanese understood cholera at that time. Members of the Japanese medical community utilized both Chinese-based theories and European medical texts until the 1870s, when Western ideas dominated the discourse concerning cholera. However the dominant understandings of the disease shifted from seeing it as having become endemic during the 1870s to almost invariably being a foreign intruder by the 1890s. These understandings were based not on statistical or other scientific evidence but rather on cultural and political associations with cholera as a disease of filth., 当論文は、19世紀の多様な一次資料をもとに、日本で当時コレラが如何に理解されていたかを検討します。日本の医療関係者は、西洋のコレラに対する理論が主導権を握ることになる1870年頃まで、長らく漢方に基づく医学論とヨーロッパの医学テキスト両方を使用して来ていました。それにもかかわらず、細菌学は主役を務められない脇役でしかないという前近代から近代にかけてのコレラ抑制に関する概念を翻訳した結果が、予防対策が最も重要であるという見解でした。さらに、1870年代頃までは、地方病(endemic)として見られていたのが、1890年頃には、国外から潜入したもとと理解するのが主流見解となる変化が起きていました。そうした動きは、統計学的もしくは科学的物証から引き出された結果ではなく、コレラが文化と政治に関連した結果でした。

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Authors & Contributors
Stevens, Donald Fithian
Jannetta, Ann Bowman
Bretelle-Establet, Florence
McGrath, Elena
Alibrandi, Rosamaria
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Journals
New Books Network Podcast
Medicina Historica
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
Viella
University of New Mexico Press
University of Chicago Press
University of California, Los Angeles
UBC Press
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Epidemics
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Public health
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Early modern
Modern
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
Japan
Korea
Sicily
China
Mexico
Cuba
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