Science and Society in Modern Japan

Selected Historical Sources

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4023745
AutoresY Fukashima (The University of Tokyo), Shigeru Nakayama (The University of Tokyo), David L Swain (The University of Tokyo), Yagi Eri, Eri Yagi (The University of Tokyo)
Año1977
Volumen18
Número3
Páginas574
Fecha de publicación1977-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3103943
OpenAlexW1998848413
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5

Book Reviews considers popular Japanese and Sino-Japanese medicine from the seventeenth century to 1868.Traditional Japanese medicine as depicted in art is treated fully in Chapter 4, and in the last chapter modern medicine from 1867 to 1970 is described.There are copious scholarly notes to each chapter and appendices containing a list of Japanese medical schools, an index of foreigners who visited Japan (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries), a chronology of politics, a chronology of medicine (A.D. 414 to 1971), an excellent bibliography of Japanese medicine, and a list of lengthy illustration legends; there is a name index only.The medicine ofJapan, as well as its industry, is becoming an increasingly important factor in the West and it is therefore important that we should know more of its origins, and the forces and pressures that have moulded it.For instance it seems remarkable that so much progress could have been made since the Japanese emerged from their medieval state only one hundred years ago, and it is fascinating to learn how this has been brought about.The authors and the publishers are, therefore, to be congratulated on producing a book as full of learning as it is pleasing to the eye

Political science · History · History of Science and Medicine