Hoi Eun Kim: 1 book
Doctors of Empire
Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The history of German medicine has undergone intense scrutiny because of its indelible connection to Nazi crimes. What is less well known is that Meiji Japan adopted German medicine as its official model in 1869. In Doctors of Empire, Hoi-eun Kim recounts the story of the almost 1,200 Japanese medical...
