Practical pursuits : Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and western medicine in nineteenth-century Japan / Ellen Gardner Nakamura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakamura, Ellen Gardner, 1971-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 255.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 255

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Takano, Chōei, 1804-1850.

Takano, Chōei.

Takahashi, Keisaku, 1799-1875.

Takahashi, Keisaku.

Medicine--Japan--History--19th century.

Medicine.

History.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This book argues that the study of Western medicine was a dynamic activity that brought together doctors from all over the country in efforts to effect social change. By examining the social impact of Western learning at the level of everyday life rather than simply its impact at the theoretical level, the book offers a broad picture of the way in which Western medicine, and Western knowledge, was absorbed and adapted in Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

ISBN:

0674019520

OCLC:

57531412