出版書誌データベース

When was the real voice of Western Medicine in Japan first heard? On the occasion of arrival of Catholic missionaries supported by Portuguese voyagers on mid-16th century?
In the age of Nanban (Iberian) and Kōmō (People of Northern Europe) medicine in the first quarter of the 17th century? Or on the lifting of the ban on the study of Rangaku (Dutch studies) by the Shōgun Yoshimune on the mid-18th century? Its growth was influenced often, widely and greatly by pressure from various sources, both within Japan, and countries in Europe or even the US, which had no formal relations with Japan at that time.
The author in fully convinced that the growth of Western medicine in Japan was the seeds bed, or at least cultural crucible of the modern history of our country itself.

著：Shiro Kira
Shiro Kira graduated from the Medical School of the University of Tokyo in 1955. He is Professor Emeritus of Juntendo University and Jichi Medical College.

訳：J. Patrick Barron
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Patrick Barron finished high school at Canterbury School in the U. S. and undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. Now Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Medical University, he is also Adjunct Professor of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.

編著：Yuko Atarashi
Yuko Atarashi is a pharmacist and medical translator who contributed greatly to the Department of International Medical Communications of Tokyo Medical University.