Practical Pursuits: Takano Choei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan

by Ellen Gardner Nakamura

The history of Western medicine in the late Tokugawa period is usually depicted as a prelude to modern medicine. By comparison to the Western medical science that was systematically introduced in the Meiji period, the Tokugawa study of Western learning is often seen as a hopelessly backward exercise in which inadequately equipped Japanese doctors valiantly struggled to make sense of outdated Dutch knowledge. In contrast, this book argues that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019520
• ISBN13: 9780674019522
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"