Beriberi in modern Japan : the making of a national disease / Alexander R. Bay.

2012

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.