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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nakamura, Ellen Gardner, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
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.