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WESTERN MEDICAL PIONEERS IN FEUDAL JAPAN

Written by John Z. Bowers
Published by The John Hopkins Press in 1970

WESTERN MEDICAL PIONEERS IN FEUDAL JAPAN
Written by John Z. Bowers.
Stock no. 1708074
1st. 1970. Hardback. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Inscription in ink to half-title page. Wrapper spine faded.

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Front cover

Cover of WESTERN MEDICAL PIONEERS IN FEUDAL JAPAN by John Z. Bowers

Contents

  • Introduction
  • I Medicine before the Dutch
  • II The Early Years at Deshima: Willem Ten Rhijne and Engelbert Kaempfer
  • III Opening the Door to Western Medicine: Carl Pieter Thunberg
  • IV The Flowering of Western Medicine: Phillipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold
  • V The Continuing Rise of Western Medicine: The Return of Siebold
  • VI J.L.C. Pompe van Meerdvoort: The Official Adoption of Western Medicine.
  • Appendix I: Correspondence between William II of Holland and the Shogun of Japan AD 1844
  • Appendix II: Chronology of the Rise of Western Medicine in Japan
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index