Nutritional Policies and International Diplomacy: The Impact of Tadasu Saiki and the Imperial State Institute of Nutrition (Tokyo, 1916-1945)

ISBN-13: 9782807611535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Josep Lluis Barona Vilar

Opis

This book on to nutrition and public health policies in modernisation of Japan in interwar years describes the birth of public health administration and the cultural significance of rice. It focuses on the figure of Tadasu Saiki, who boosted national policies and wide international diplomacy in Japan and abroad.

Spis treści

1 Nutritional policies and international diplomacy: soft power in favour of Japanese prestige

2 Demographic and epidemiologic background. The birth of a public health administration

3 Rice in Japanese culture

4 Rice, diet, and the problem of beriberi

5 Tadasu Saiki (1876-1959), founding father of Japanese nutritional science

6 The Imperial State Institute of Nutrition (1920) in interwar years

7 The international impact of Japanese nutritional policies

8 The consequences of the Second World War

O autorze

Josep L. Barona is professor of history of science at the University of Valencia. His research deals with international diplomacy, public health and nutritional policies in the global context focused from a transnational perspective.