Article ID: CBB706461179

Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950 (March 2019)

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Suzuki, Akihito (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 13
Issue: 1
Pages: 39-55


Publication Date: March 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: Life, Science, and Power in History and Philosophy
Language: English

From the 1920s and 1930s, discussion of asymptomatic carriers started to appear in Japan and quickly became well established. Two important frameworks here were public health and laboratory experiment. Japanese public health policies existed in theory, isolating asymptomatic carriers within their own family to prevent infection of others. These theoretical policies did not, however, attract great attention either from doctors, carriers, or family members. The crucial aspect in Japan was laboratory experiment. Japanese doctors concentrated on experimenting with animals as carriers of typhoid and other asymptomatic infections, trying to incorporate the latest theories of life and death taken from physiology. One reason for the relative neglect of the public health and isolation policy was the ongoing presence of a large number of patients with such diseases; another was the prestige of the laboratory as intellectual authority among well-trained doctors.

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Article Takabayashi, Akinobu (March 2019) Medical Technology in Use: A History of Clinical Thermometry in Modern Britain and Japan. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 17-37). unapi

Article Suzuki, Akihito; Takabayashi, Akinobu (March 2019) Life, Science, and Power in History and Philosophy. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 9-16). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hayang Sook Kim
Keck, Frédéric
Steere-Williams, Jacob
Rodríguez de Romo, Ana Cecilia
Ragland, Evan R.
Löwy, Illana
Concepts
Medicine
Public health
Infectious diseases
Human experimentation
Typhoid fever
Medical education and teaching
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Modern
21st century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Japan
United States
Germany
China
Taiwan
Great Britain
Institutions
Universiteit Leiden
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