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Author Perelman, Elisheva A., author.

Title American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan / Elisheva A. Perelman.

Publication Info. Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020.
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Description 1 online resource (242 pages)
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Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
Note Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229) and index.
Contents Introduction : the story of something that did not happen -- "Dead, shriveled trees" : factory girls in Meiji and Taishō Japan -- "The snow-white shawl" : tuberculosis in Meiji and Taishō Japan -- "The enemy of mankind" : the struggle against tuberculosis -- "Justifying the liabilities which had been incurred" : political strife over tuberculosis -- "The Nazareth of the Orient" : the particular work of the evangelists -- "Now Is the day for Japan" : the YMCA -- "The soldiers must have the real fighting spirit" : the Salvation Army -- "The great gulf fixed" : Rudolf Teusler and William Vories -- Afterword : "let the work go on" -- Conclusions : cui bono?
Summary Tuberculosis ran rampant in Japan during the late Meiji and Taisho years (1880s-1920s). Many of the victims of the then incurable disease were young female workers from the rural areas, who were trying to support their families by working in the new textile factories. The Japanese government of the time, however, seemed unprepared to tackle the epidemic. Elisheva A. Perelman argues that pragmatism and utilitarianism dominated the thinking of the administration, which saw little point in providing health services to a group of politically insignificant patients. This created a space for American evangelical organizations to offer their services. Perelman sees the relationship between the Japanese government and the evangelists as one of moral entrepreneurship on both sides. All the parties involved were trying to occupy the moral high ground. In the end, an uneasy but mutually beneficial arrangement was reached: the government accepted the evangelists' assistance in providing relief to some tuberculosis patients, and the evangelists gained an opportunity to spread Christianity further in the country. Nonetheless, the patients remained a marginalized group as they possessed little agency over how they were treated.
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Subject Missions, American -- Japan -- History.
Missions, American.
Japan.
History.
Missions, Medical -- Japan -- History.
Missions, Medical.
Public health -- Japan -- History.
Public health.
Tuberculosis -- Japan -- History.
Tuberculosis.
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1868-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1868-
Subject Japan.
Chronological Term Since 1868
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
Other Form: Print version: 9789888528141
ISBN 9789882204959
9882204953
9789888528141
9888528149