Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan

By Hoi-Eun Kim

Book Overview

In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical students who rushed to German universities to learn cutting-edge knowledge from the world leaders in medicine, and of the dozen German physicians who were invited to Japan to transform the country's medical institutions and education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487521456
• ISBN13: 9781487521455
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher