A Modern History of ‘Imperial Medicine’ Surrounding Hansen’s Disease: Strategies to Manage Public Opinion in Modern Japanese Media*

The purpose of this study is to understand the reality of imperial medicine by exploring the strategic attitude of the Japanese authority targeting the public who were not patients of Hansen’s disease. For this purpose, this study examines the mass media data related to Hansen’s disease published in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gijae SEO
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society for the History of Medicine 2017-12-01
Series:Uisahak
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Online Access:http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-26-3-417.pdf