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