Hoi-Eun Kim

Doctors of Empire

Medical and Cultural Encounters Between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country's medical institutions and education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781487521455
• ISBN-10: 1487521456
• Artikelnr.: 44971925

Autorenporträt

Hoi-eun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names
Introduction: Weaving Germany and Japan together with the Thread of Medical
Science
1. Same Bed, Different Dreams
2. Borrowed Hands: German Physicians’ Medical Education in Meiji Japan
3. Socialized Intellect: Intellectual and Communal Journeys of Japanese
Doctors in Germany
4. Bedazzled and Bewildered: Cultural Journeys of Japanese Students in
Germany
5. Japan through Stethoscope: German Physicians as Anthropologists of Meiji
Japan
6. Promises and Perils of Encounters: Influences of German Medicine in
Japan
Epilogue: Fatal Affinities? The Long-term Legacies of German-Japanese
Medical Relations
Bibliography