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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Ralph W. Nicholas Abstract Śītalā, Goddess of Smallpox, is the preeminent tutelary deity of villages in southwestern Bengal, and a goddess of the same name has a prominent role in Hindu pantheons throughout northern India. Her rise to importance is closely related to the history of smallpox, which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 62–87.
Published: 01 February 2024
... bureaus across Xinjiang—a colonial administration that encompassed all of East Turkestan—to combat smallpox outbreaks within Musulman (Uyghur) communities and the Qing army garrison. The vaccination bureau in Turpan, although led by Han vaccinators from Inner China, depended heavily on the labor...
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Published: 01 February 2024
FIGURE 2 Instructions for the creation of an amulet ( tumar ) to ward off smallpox. Jarring Prov. 5, 25a.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 7–9.
Published: 01 November 1981
... with discipline specialists to offer programs of language study that are substantively, linguistically, and pedagogically sound and that simultaneously satisfy the increasing diversity of student interests. The Goddess SItala and Epidemic Smallpox in Bengal RALPH W. NICHOLAS Pages 21-44 SItala, Goddess...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 597–599.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of Smallpox,” although in this chapter, images are less important than text and context. Beginning with woodblock illustrations of smallpox “types” from the eighteenth-century classic Yizong jinjian , Heinrich demonstrates how the French Jesuit Martial Cibot first lifted—then twisted—medical knowledge from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 376–377.
Published: 01 May 1988
... any historian of disease and mortality, but in Japan numerous descriptive accounts of epidemics and statistical data in temple death registers (kakocho) are available. Drawing on such sources, the author reaches conclusions concerning epidemics of smallpox, measles, dysentery, and cholera...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 377–379.
Published: 01 May 1988
... concerning epidemics of smallpox, measles, dysentery, and cholera and the relationship between famine and epidemic disease in early modern Japan. Throughout the Edo period, smallpox remained the deadliest epidemic disease. Although endemic, it also swept the country in several major epidemics. It returned...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (2): 148–157.
Published: 01 February 1945
... health throughout the western world, remarkable progress was made in sanitation and control of major epidemic diseases. Plague, smallpox and cholera were gradually brought under control; outbreaks of dysentery and typhoid fever were dealt with according to modern science. A beginning was made...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 979–980.
Published: 01 November 2020
... global fight against disease. In 1979, for example, the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been eliminated—an achievement predicated on the elimination of the disease in the world's most populous country. A mere decade after its founding, the People's Republic of China (PRC) had...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 895–896.
Published: 01 November 1991
... as a model to Third World societies" (p. 74). The book continues with critiques of modern medicine. Frederique Marglin compares smallpox vaccination in India with variolation, an indigenous technique of inoculation with actual smallpox matter, associated with the deity Sitala. It produced a milder...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 822–824.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of European and North American Nations and Empires” (5), choose these three from among the nineteenth century's many rampant diseases? Why not smallpox, for example? Because, White argues convincingly, smallpox was not a disease thought to move from colonized to colonizer; if anything, historical experience...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2024
... Army developed to establish vaccination centers in Turpan to prevent smallpox during the epidemic of the late nineteenth century. If not exactly objects in-between, Musulman subjects are certainly objectified as marginalized—the incorporated, disciplined, immunized other—within the bracket of Qing...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1949) 9 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 November 1949
... patriarch, confirmed the fact of his dying of smallpox, and that the report spread in Europe that the Ch'ien-lung Emperor had poisoned him in order to dissolve the connection between him and Warren Hastings seemed altogether without foundation. More recently, the great Tibetan scholar, Baron von Stael...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1950) 10 (1): 56–62.
Published: 01 November 1950
... at anchor.12 One of the immediate effects of contact with the outside world was the introduction of diseases from the whaling ships. Smallpox, measles, and syphilis decimated the population. In 1853 a smallpox epidemic spread from the Delta while she was at anchor, killing approximately 3,000 in five months...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 569–577.
Published: 01 August 2020
... in their social dynamics and political reverberations one is from the other. Governments and health services try to manage their own epidemics; pandemics have long been global business. Held responsible for successive “waves” of disease—cholera, smallpox, dengue, plague—advancing overland toward Europe...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 7–35.
Published: 01 February 1987
... in the view that fetal poison would be responsible sooner or later for the eruptions of the "poxes" {tou-chen), smallpox and measles. Because all children got these diseases, which either killed them or made them immune from further attacks, belief in their innate, inevitable nature was reinforced. Given...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 567–569.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... This is an erudite book that, for me at least, convinces by its wealth of detail. However, some of these scholarly details assume a life of their own; a weakness of the book may be that occasionally, as in an excursion into the premodern treatment of smallpox, we end up wondering how direct the connection really...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 238–239.
Published: 01 February 2021
.... Much of chapter 6 is on diseases, such as smallpox, malaria, and cholera. Chapter 4, on the rickshaw puller Trần Văn Lang, reveals many twists—including an alias used—and much geographical (although not upward) mobility despite authorities’ restrictions on it. Cherry's prose strikes a rare jarring...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 599–601.
Published: 01 May 2010
... related to class, family, women, and children. The period from 600 to 800 marked what he titles “An End to Growth” (pp. 27–52), owing to a demographic collapse caused by smallpox (in earlier books he resisted naming this disease), crop failure, and ecological degradation. Between 800 and 1050, political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1132–1133.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., the study of disease has become an important subfield within the medical history of modern Japan. Smallpox, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, and plague, to name but a few conditions, have served as the focus of numerous books and articles. Beriberi ( kakkebyō ), too, has elicited some attention, mostly among...
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