The Politics of Breeding: Rabies Prevention and the Shaping of Human-Dog Relations in Modern Japan.

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES Korean Journal of Medical History Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.13081/kjmh.2022.31.579
Yongyuan Huang
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Rabies prevention has become a vital part of public health administration owing to the high incidence of rabies in Japan in modern times. The rabies prevention system in Japan, which was gradually established based on the rabies knowledge and prevention policies from Europe and the United States, was centered on livestock dog control, wild dog culling, and vaccination. This epidemic prevention system was based on two premises. First, though rabies is a zoonotic infectious disease, the focus of epidemic prevention administration was to protect humans, not dogs. Second, this system attempted to eliminate the rabies hazard at its source by reducing the number of all dogs-livestock dogs included. Under this epidemic prevention mechanism, the survival space of dogs as an object of public health administration was significantly eroded. In contrast, during wartime, the Japanese Empire encouraged people to donate their dogs to the military so their fur could be used to make military coats, and in the name of existing rabies prevention programs, extended the target of culling from wild dogs only to all non-military dogs. This administrative model of epidemic prevention, which attempted to hide the violence and arbitrariness of dog killing by creating artificial distinctions among dogs, is a metaphor for the power training mechanism in modern society.

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繁殖的政治:狂犬病的预防与近代日本人犬关系的塑造。
由于近代日本狂犬病发病率高,预防狂犬病已成为公共卫生管理的重要组成部分。日本的狂犬病预防体系是在欧美狂犬病知识和预防政策的基础上逐步建立起来的,其核心是牲畜犬只控制、野狗扑杀和疫苗接种。这一防疫系统是以两个前提为基础的。首先,尽管狂犬病是一种人畜共患传染病,但防疫管理的重点是保护人类,而不是狗。其次,该系统试图通过减少所有狗的数量,包括牲畜狗,从源头上消除狂犬病的危害。在这种防疫机制下,狗作为公共卫生管理对象的生存空间受到了明显侵蚀。相比之下,在战争期间,日本帝国鼓励人们将他们的狗捐赠给军队,这样他们的毛皮就可以用来制作军用外套,并以现有狂犬病预防计划的名义,将扑杀野狗的目标扩大到所有非军犬。这种防疫行政模式试图通过在狗之间制造人为的区别来掩盖杀害狗的暴力和任意性,这是现代社会权力训练机制的隐喻。
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