[PDF] Years Of Progress 1945 52 eBook

Author : Christopher Aldous
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 113649880X

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Whilst most facets of the Occupation of Japan have attracted much scholarly debate in recent decades, this is not the case with reforms relating to public health. The few studies of this subject largely follow the celebratory account of US-inspired advances, strongly associated with Crawford Sams, the key figure in the Occupation charged with carrying them out. This book tests the validity of this dominant narrative, interrogating its chief claims, exploring the influences acting on it, and critically examining the reform’s broader significance for the Occupation and its legacies for both Japan and the US. The book argues that rather than presiding over a revolution in public health, the Public Health and Welfare Section, headed by Sams, recommended methods of epidemic disease control and prevention that were already established in Japan and were not the innovations that they were often claimed to be. Where high incidence of such endemic diseases as dysentery and tuberculosis reflected serious socio-economic problems or deficiencies in sanitary infrastructure, little was done in practice to tackle the fundamental problems of poor water quality, the continued use of night soil as fertilizer and pervasive malnutrition. Improvements in these areas followed the trajectory of recovery, growth and rising prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s. This book will be important reading for anyone studying Japanese History, the History of Medicine, Public Health in Asia and Asian Social Policy.

Author : Jon M. Skovlin
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN :

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This document traces the history of the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range since its establishment on July 11, 1940. It recalls the historical process of community development and the evolution of forest, range, and wildlife exploitation, which produced the conditions making the area appropriate for a research station. This paper recounts the comings and goings of research personnel through a half century of activities and program development. The author also analyzes a succession of events that have brought about ecological changes on the Starkey Range. Included is a list of publications resulting from research at the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range.