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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Takano Choei and the medical arena
- 2. 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 avoiding epidemic diseases.