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Study findings from University of Pittsburgh provide new insights into immunization
May 13th, 2009
"Vaccination played a leading role in transforming the social and political status of medicine in Japanese society in the second half of the nineteenth century. The process began well before the Meiji Restoration of 1868 created a centralized government under the Japanese emperor," researchers in the United States report. "At the beginning of the century, medicine was a private business. There was no oversight from all interested government, and there were no medical societies or journals in which to debate and formulate opinion about medical practice. Medical knowledge was transmitted privately through personal lineage structures whose members, jealously guarded their...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-13)
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