
Hanaoka Seishu
Surgeon Developed General Anesthesia in Edo Japan
THEMES: Japan, Dutch Trade and Exploration, History of Medicine
BOOKS, ARTICLES
Edo Period Medicine and Anesthesia
ARTICLES
Modern Japanese Medical History and its European influences
http://www.kjm.keio.ac.jp/past/50/2/91.pdf?origin=publication_detail
History of Anesthesia in Japan
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/095281809090021T
The Development of aesthetic facial surgery in Japan
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01578352
History of Modern Anesthesia in Japan
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7_47
Hanaoka Seishu’s surgical casebook. The National Library of Medicine:
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/hanaoka/hanaoka.html
Gordon E. Mestler, "A galaxy of old Japanese medical books with miscellaneous notes on early medicine in Japan. Part III.: urology, syphilology and dermatology; surgery and pathology,” Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 44/2 (1956): 125–59.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC199999/
Tomio Ogata, “Seishu Hanaoka and his anaesthesiology and surgery,” Anaesthesia, 28 (1973): 645–652. (extracted from the Wiley Online Library)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1973.tb00549.x/abstract
Koichi Watanbe, “Seishu Hanaoka (1760-1835),” Biomedicine International, 4 (2013): 1-2.
http://www.bmijournal.org/index.php/bmi/article/viewFile/127/103
BOOKS
Dutch Studies
BOOKS
Grant Kohn Goodman, Japan: The Dutch Experience (New York, Bloomsbury: 2012).
ARTICLES
Rangaku and Westernization
http://www.jstor.org/stable/312333
The Dutch Science (Rangaku) and its Influence on Japan
ONLINE RESOURCES
Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/491099/rangaku
Katsushika Hokusai, Ukiyo-e & Edo Period Japan
http://www.hokusaionline.co.uk/code/foreign.html#B
Anesthesia and Medicine
http://www.general-anaesthesia.com/misc/seishu-hanaoka.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/the-painful-story-behind-modern-anesthesia/
http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/history/beforeth.htm
International Museum of Surgical Science
Anesthesia History Association
GRAPHICS and TIMELINES
TIMELINES
Edo Japan
http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/japan/pictures/japan-history.gif
History of Anesthesia
http://www.histansoc.org.uk/timeline.html
Wood Library Interactive Timeline, History of Anesthesia
http://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/history-of-anesthesia/
History of Anesthesia
VIDEO
National History Day Documentary on Anesthesia
History of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital