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Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan (German and European Studies) - Hardcover
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.
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Hoi-eun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of History at Texas A&M University.
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“Doctors of Empire takes us to the cosmopolitan city of Berlin, showing it to us in the eyes of Japanese students, and shedding light on its universities, beer halls, rooming houses, and friendship circles. In doing this, Kim shows us an innovative way of looking at German-Japanese relationships outside the usual political and diplomatic discussions and reveals why transnational scientific exchanges are a vital part of larger stories.” (Deborah Neill, Associate Professor of History, York University)
“Kim explores the networks and relationships that made and changed the study of medicine in both Japan and Germany from a superb base of Japanese and German archival sources. A richly detailed and compelling picture of the globalization of German medical education and the socialization of the young doctors that benefitted from this exchange, Doctors of Empire is a groundbreaking work of transnational history.”
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1442644400
- ISBN 13 9781442644403
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
(2014)
ISBN 10: 1442644400
ISBN 13: 9781442644403
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket, book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, jacket has moderate rubbing to the glossy surface and no other flaws, a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "explores the networks and relationships that made and changed the study of medicine in both Japan and Germany from a superb base of Japanese and German archival sources," illustrated and includes a Selected Bibliography; ; 249 pages. Seller Inventory # 050913
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