Doctors of empire : medical and cultural encounters between imperial Germany and Meiji Japan / Hoi-eun Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Hoi-eun, 1976- author.

Series:

German and European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Medicine.

Medicine--Germany--International cooperation--History--19th century.

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

Medicine--Germany--History--19th century.

Physicians--Japan--History--19th century.

Physicians.

Physicians--Germany--History--19th century.

Medical education--Japan--History--19th century.

Medical education.

Medical education--Germany--History--19th century.

Relations.

History.

International cooperation.

Japan--Relations--Germany--History--19th century.

Japan.

Germany--Relations--Japan--History--19th century.

Germany.

Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912.

Medicine--International cooperation.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

Summary:

Transnational history at its finest, Doctors of Empire not only illuminates the German origins of modern medical science in Japan but also reinterprets the nature of German imperialism in East Asia."--pub. desc.

Contents:

1 Same Bed, Different Dreams 16

2 Borrowed Hands: German Physicians' Teaching of Medical Education in Meiji Japan 31

3 Socialized Intellect: Intellectual and Communal Journeys of Japanese Doctors in Germany 54

4 Bedazzled and Bewildered: Cultural Journeys of Japanese Students in Germany 88

5 Japan through the Stethoscope: German Physicians as Anthropologists of Meiji Japan 102

6 Promises and Perils of Encounters: Influences of German Medicine in Japan 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442644403

1442644400

OCLC:

865493057