Doctors of Empire - Medical Cultural Encounters Between Imperial Germany Meiji Japan

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hoi-Eun Kim
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781487521455
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2145-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: German and European Studies; German and European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europa, Europäische Geschichte, Archäologie einer Periode / Region, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte