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[The Japanese emperors' view of epidemic and medical relief in the 8th-10th centuries].
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi
September 2023
China Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
At the end of the 7th century, Chinese medicine was widely spread in the upper class of Japanese society, and Japanese emperors developed a medical based view on epidemics. At the beginning of the 8th century, emperors determined to reform by imitated the Tang to build a state ruled by law.They determine the way of TCM to relieve the epidemic in the form of legislation, and used medical measures in outbreaks on many occasions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRegulating Movement in Pandemic Times.
J Bioeth Inq
December 2023
University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
As COVID-19 and its variants spread across Australia at differing paces and intensity, the country's response to the risk of infection and contagion revealed an intensification of bordering practices as a form of risk mitigation with disparate impacts on different segments of the Australian community. Australia's international border was closed for both inbound and outbound travel, with few exceptions, while states and territories, Indigenous communities, and local government areas were subject to a patchwork of varying restrictions. By focusing on borders at various levels, our research traces how the logics of medico-legal bordering have filtered down from the international to the intra-national, and indeed, into hyper-local spaces.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Smallpox Vaccine in Latin America: A New Approach (1801-1804).
Medicina (Kaunas)
June 2023
Departamento de Anatomía Patológica, Biología Celular, Histología, Historia de la Ciencia, Medicina Legal y Forense y Toxicología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cádiz, E-11003 Cádiz, Spain.
The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition is considered in the history of medicine as the first international health expedition aimed at the global elimination of a contagious disease: smallpox. However, the initiatives carried out in this way before the arrival of the Balmis Expedition, by surgeons from the Spanish Navy, are less well known. Thus, the main objective of this research work is to offer an overview of the different anti-variolic vaccination initiatives prior to the campaign financed by the Spanish crown from these health facilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLocal infectious disease experience influences vaccine refusal rates: a natural experiment.
Proc Biol Sci
February 2023
School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Vaccination has been critical to the decline in infectious disease prevalence in recent centuries. Nonetheless, vaccine refusal has increased in recent years, with complacency associated with reductions in disease prevalence highlighted as an important contributor. We exploit a natural experiment in Glasgow at the beginning of the twentieth century to investigate whether prior local experience of an infectious disease matters for vaccination decisions.
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