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Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
Hoi-Eun Kim
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 266 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DFG; HBJD; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes. What is less well known is that Meiji Japan adopted German medicine as its official model in 1869. 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. Shifting fluently between German, English, and Japanese sources, Kim's book uses the colourful lives of these men to examine the impact of German medicine in Japan from its arrival to the pinnacle of its influence and its abrupt but temporary collapse at the outbreak of the First World War. 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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781487521455
SKU
V9781487521455
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Ref
99-1
About Hoi-Eun Kim
Hoi-eun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University.
Reviews for Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
'An engaging account of intellectual exchange and occasional friction set in the universities, hospitals, boarding houses, and beer halls of two ambitious empires. This tightly structured book covers the origins, evolution, and implications of this intellectual exchange... Outstanding work.'
Adam T. Roesnbaum German Studies Review vol 39:02:2016 'This excellent book deserves careful attention from modern historians of both countries as well as scholars in the history of medicine.'
James R. Bartholomew Journal of Japanese Studies vol 42:02:2016 'Doctors of Empire is an illuminating work that shows how imperial relations of power shaped the medical profession in Germany, Japan, and East Asia.'
Susan L. Burns Medical History vol 59:03:2015 'Hoi-eun-Kim's Doctors of Empire provides a new and welcome addition to the growing literature on Meiji Japan. Scholars have long acknowledged the Meiji fascination with German scientific models of practice; Kim is one of the first to investigate this relationship in detail.'
John DiMoia Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review June 2015
Adam T. Roesnbaum German Studies Review vol 39:02:2016 'This excellent book deserves careful attention from modern historians of both countries as well as scholars in the history of medicine.'
James R. Bartholomew Journal of Japanese Studies vol 42:02:2016 'Doctors of Empire is an illuminating work that shows how imperial relations of power shaped the medical profession in Germany, Japan, and East Asia.'
Susan L. Burns Medical History vol 59:03:2015 'Hoi-eun-Kim's Doctors of Empire provides a new and welcome addition to the growing literature on Meiji Japan. Scholars have long acknowledged the Meiji fascination with German scientific models of practice; Kim is one of the first to investigate this relationship in detail.'
John DiMoia Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review June 2015