The Japanese medical Empire and its iterations. Essay review of: Kim, Hoi-eun: Doctors of Empire : medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2014
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mean this in the most positive sense-as he blends transnational history with medical anthropology at various points, explicitly identifying a group of his German actors as amateur "anthropologists" (chapter 5). 5 The result is a work far richer in the depth of its claims and research than would otherwise be possible.In effect, what Kim creates here is a hybrid, combining a close and detailed account of Meiji physicians in Germany with a parallel account of German actors moving in the other direction.Moreover, for this second narrative thread, he explicitly mobilizes the category of "German Orientalism," seeking to document and understand how the Germans saw and made use of their diverse experiences in Japan.In turn, the Japanese actors received a strong dose of German interest in racial categories and physical anthropology, both of which would influence how they saw themselves, and soon, of course, how they saw and responded to other Asian populations. 6This last remark reflects the reality that Japan ultimately began to develop its own set of imperial ambitions.The presence of the Japanese empire, both as an implicit trope hovering in the background for much of the book, and later as an explicit theme near the conclusion, makes this work strong throughout, carrying out its initial ambitions.This is not a teleological move toward empire, but rather, a careful suggestion of the ways in which the German-Japanese experience of medical encounter gradually accumulated over time, tending to highlight certain impulses as emerging possibilities. Adaptation and Translation: Reframing the Relationship of Medical Encounter between Germany and JapanKim frames his ambitious project by opening with an account of a ceremony held at Tokyo Imperial University in April 1907, with the occasion marking the unveiling of two busts intended to memorialize the legacy of two German professors of medicine-Erwin Baelz and Julius Scriba-who had spent considerable time in the Japanese context.With this vignette, Kim proceeds to a brief account of the day, with Dean Aoyama of the School of Medicine offering his observations in German, remarks to the effect that "when it comes to medical science, our nation is a German colony" (3).These remarks are in some sense a tipping of the hat in the direction of Kim's central argument, but in another respect, the claim put forth here represents only a simple, crude version of what Kim ultimately hopes to achieve.That is, Aoyama's words clearly reflect at least one version of a dominant understanding of the legacy of German medicine for Meiji DiMoia
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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