Medical Women in the Japanese Empire - Sources and Critique

About the author

Hiro Fujimoto is Assistant Professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany. He works on the history of medicine in modern Japan from global and gender perspectives. He wrote several articles in Japanese and English, including "Women, Missionaries, and Medical Professions" (Japan Forum, 2020).
Aya Homei is Reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. She researches the history of medicine and science in modern Japan, focusing on population and reproduction. Her recent publications include Science for Governing Japan's Population (2023).
Ellen Gardner Nakamura is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specializes in the social history of medicine in nineteenth-century Japan. Her most recent monograph is Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation: Contesting Modernity in the Late Nineteenth Century (2025).

Product details

• Authors: Hiro (Heidelberg University Fujimoto
• Assisted by: Hiro Fujimoto (Editor), Homei Aya (Editor), Nakamura Ellen Gardner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032744582
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274458-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, HISTORY / Women, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Regional Studies, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Public health & preventive medicine, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Public health and preventive medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies