Practical pursuits : Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and western medicine in nineteenth-century Ja...
Practical pursuits : Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and western medicine in nineteenth-century Ja...
Practical pursuits : Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and western medicine in nineteenth-century Japan / Ellen Gardner Nakamura.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N610.9/ 78
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English
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xiv, 236 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Takano Choei and the medical arena -- 2. The Kozuke physicians : Rangaku in the countryside -- 3. Famine, epidemics, and the social role of physicians -- 4. "The way of medicine" : Takahashi Keisaku's daily work -- App. A. Treatise on two things for the relief of famine -- App. B. Methods of avoi...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2005.
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"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...
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Practical pursuits : Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and western medicine in nineteenth-century Japan / Ellen Gardner Nakamura.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N610.9/ 78
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0674019520 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674019522 (cloth : alk. paper)
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610.952
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991020324909702626
