Practical pursuits : Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and western medicine in nineteenth-century Japan /
"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 ex...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
255. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Takano Chōei and the Medical Arena
- The Kōzuke Physicians: Rangaku in the Countryside
- Famine, Epidemics, and the Social Role of Physicians
- "The Way of Medicine": Takahashi Keisaku's Daily Work
- Ranpō Medicine and Practical Pursuits
- Treatise on Two Things for the Relief of Famine
- Methods of Avoiding Epidemic Diseases
- Works Cited
- Index
- Harvard East Asian Monographs.