Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters Between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan

by Hoi-Eun Kim

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487521456
• ISBN13: 9781487521455
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"