2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Military Medicine and its information distribution to locals and colonies--malaria control in the early twentieth century United States
Project/Area Number |
16K03120
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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Research Institution | Toyo Eiwa University (2017-2018) Sapporo Gakuin University (2016) |
Principal Investigator |
Hiratai Yumi 東洋英和女学院大学, 国際社会学部, 教授 (90275107)
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Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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Keywords | 公衆衛生史 / マラリア対策 / 天然痘対策 / アメリカ軍 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Studies have shown that medical practices and experiments during the Spanish-American war of 1898 taught the military physicians lessons on the effectiveness and limitation of typhoid vaccination and the yellow fever control. This study explored the distribution of information on medical practice and environmental control in the military forces and camps, and investigated how the information was used both in the United States and its newly obtained colonies. I found that the effectiveness on and techniques of smallpox vaccination was shared in southern states, and state public health officials tried to deal with the smallpox epidemic from 1898 to 1904, along with other states' experiences. On the other hand, the mosquito control techniques to curtail yellow fever and malaria were not much shared because of the difficulties of political persuasion to win the budget allocation.
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Free Research Field |
アメリカ史
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究は、アメリカ軍が獲得した医療・衛生情報を、どのようにアメリカ本土と植民地に還元し、その結果住民の疾病予防・衛生概念はどのように均一化されたのかについて、考察しようとするものである。軍隊そのものの健康管理については数多の研究が存在するが、それが軍隊外の地域住民にどのような形で影響を及ぼしたかについては、まだ十分明らかにされていない。本研究によって、軍隊による医療・衛生情報の獲得と共有のルートについて整理することができた。
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