The article analyses the cultural and scientific relations of Japan, illustrating how the reception of new knowledge can undermine an existing scientific paradigm and urge a response to the resultant crisis. In the case of Japan, the reaction to this situation of crisis would have a positive outcome: the sense of national identity and the economic rationality of Japanese culture enabled the country to undertake innovative scientific-technological development. Such issues are here analyzed through the role of medicine, influenced initially by an age-old Chinese culture and then by western scientific methods.
Scientific Transfer between Europe and Japan.The Influence of Dutch and German Medicinefrom the Edo Period to the Meiji Restoration
CIRIACONO, SALVATORE
2010
Abstract
The article analyses the cultural and scientific relations of Japan, illustrating how the reception of new knowledge can undermine an existing scientific paradigm and urge a response to the resultant crisis. In the case of Japan, the reaction to this situation of crisis would have a positive outcome: the sense of national identity and the economic rationality of Japanese culture enabled the country to undertake innovative scientific-technological development. Such issues are here analyzed through the role of medicine, influenced initially by an age-old Chinese culture and then by western scientific methods.File in questo prodotto:
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