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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 62–87.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Kevin Kind Abstract This article draws on archival materials from late Qing Turpan Prefecture to explore Qing colonialism within the context of mass vaccination efforts in Xinjiang from 1880 to 1911. Following the reconquest of the region in 1877, Xiang Army leaders established official vaccination...
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View articletitled, Protecting the Musulman Children: Smallpox Epidemics, Chinese Medicine, and <span class="search-highlight">Vaccination</span> Colonialism in Late Qing Turpan, 1880–1911
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 979–980.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Ruth Rogaski Chapters 5 and 6 demonstrate how these wartime efforts later morphed into successful nationwide vaccination programs after the end of World War II and into the early years of the People's Republic. While radical structural transformations of society after 1949 allowed for more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 21–44.
Published: 01 November 1981
... Famine of 1943–44.” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, University of Chicago . Greenough Paul . 1980 . “ Variolation and Vaccination in South Asia, c. 1700–1865: A Preliminary Note .” Social Science and Medicine 14 : 345 –47. Hahon Nicholas . 1961 . “ Smallpox and Related...
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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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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 1 (2): 186–188.
Published: 01 February 1942
... of the work cited or information is given concerning the author and his reasons for writing his book. For example, under the date of 1795 is given Shuto hitsujun ben MjMMffi (Discussion on the necessity of submission to vaccination) by Ogata Shunsaku fi^. The chronology continues with the comment that Ogata...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 1104–1106.
Published: 01 November 2024
... at makeshift medical laboratories had been infected. Unfortunately, public health measures had no effect; the plague only disappeared from the Dutch East Indies around 1942 following the introduction of a vaccine in 1935. According to official estimates, approximately 215,000 people died from the plague...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 246–249.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and PCR testing, however, were vital to confirming the presence of a genuinely new virus, discerning the rates and mechanisms by which COVID-19 was spreading, and developing vaccines that saved lives. Moreover, not having any PCR testing would likely have further strained medical resources, as physicians...
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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 (1945) 4 (2): 148–157.
Published: 01 February 1945
... inspector. The district health officers and presidents directed the work of sanitary inspectors, vaccinators, and nurses assigned either as public health nurses or district nurses. At the end of 1936 the personnel of the Bureau of Health and the provincial health services consisted of 498 medical officers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 724–725.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of avian influenza, and actions by bird-watching societies to prevent species extinctions. In the third theme of “storage,” Keck focuses on Taiwan and Hong Kong and theorizes parallels between ornithology collections, vaccine and drug stockpiling, and Buddhist practices of releasing captured birds...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 663–664.
Published: 01 August 2019
... projects to invest in children's welfare through family education, increased biomedical interventions such as vaccines, and institutions to provide material aid, including clinics for poor children and preschools for the children of workers. Tillman argues that these efforts were part of the Nationalist...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 973–975.
Published: 01 November 2013
... 2 describes the Western techniques and products that barefoot doctors were known to have used in their daily medical practice and public health work, including pharmaceutical tablets, medical devices, intra-uterine devices, injections, and vaccines. Chapter 3 contends that the barefoot doctor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1286–1287.
Published: 01 November 1994
... included: the complete rejection of Western medicine; overt hostility against postmortems and vaccination; rumors about doctors being involved in conspiracies to exterminate Indians; hospitals and other medical buildings being set on fire; Gandhi's characterization of colonial hospitals as "institutions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 759–761.
Published: 01 November 2023
...), but not necessarily to achieve the lasting, just peace that many Burmese are hoping for. Instead, it is simply to secure a stable environment for its own investments and infrastructure “corridors.” It is true that China's means of influence are sometimes less crude, such as in the COVID vaccinations that China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 469–470.
Published: 01 May 2021
... , 1937–1945 ( Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press , 2018 ) ;
Mary Augusta Brazelton
, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China ( Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2019 ) . 2 For example,
David N. Livingstone
, Putting...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 621–631.
Published: 01 August 2020
... administration initially confirmed Beijing's misleading reassurances about the virus, probably because the president desperately needed a US-China trade deal.) Arnold's observation that a vaccine, wherever it might be discovered, is likely to be mass-produced in India is, likewise, reflective of what are now...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1287–1288.
Published: 01 November 1994
.... These responses included: the complete rejection of Western medicine; overt hostility against postmortems and vaccination; rumors about doctors being involved in conspiracies to exterminate Indians; hospitals and other medical buildings being set on fire; Gandhi's characterization of colonial hospitals...
View articletitled, The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Śākta Tantrism Ritual and Speculation in Early Tantrism: Studies in Honor of André Padoux
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 522–523.
Published: 01 May 1999
... interesting to see how medicine would have developed if (as in today's "epidemics" of AIDS and the chronic illnesses of aging) no vaccine had saved the day. Public health administration and epidemiology, however, may be the fields that stand to gain most from this work. Good empirical studies are needed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 231–233.
Published: 01 February 2020
...); a vignette from an early twentieth-century vaccination program in Xieng Khouang Province (Kathryn Sweet); the French impact on defining “what is Laos” (Geoffrey Gunn), including the personalities and relationships of the people behind the initiation of the study of Lao prehistory (Lia Genovese); the ill...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (3): 678–679.
Published: 01 August 1990
... vaccination before Jenner; and Waltraud Ernst's informative account of "native lunatic asylums" in nineteenth-century India. The volume closes with some heterogeneous "modern observations," which range from a technical analysis by T. P. Labadie and K. T. D. De Silva of the medicinal plant Centella asiattca...
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