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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Medicine, Power, and the Rhetoric of Empire 1
6. 1 The Geography of Affliction: Beriberi in Edo and Tokyo 11
7. 2 Putting the Laboratory at the Center 30
8. 3 Beriberi: Disease of Imperial Culture 52
9. 4 Empire and the Making of a National Disease 87
10. 5 The Science of Vitamins and the Construction of Ignorance 106
11. 6 The Rice Germ Debate: Total Mobilization and the Science of Vitamins in the 1930s 128
12. Conclusion 152
13. Notes 159
14. Bibliography 205
15. Index 227