Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease

by Alexander R. Bay and Professor Alexander R. Bay

The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theorists and contagionists from 1880 to 1940.

In modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) became a public health problem that cut across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. During an age of empire building for the Japanese nation, incidence rates in the military ranged from 30 percent in peacetime to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464270
• ISBN13: 9781580464277
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 6.3"