Hanaoka Seishu

Surgeon Developed General Anesthesia in Edo Japan

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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

T. Y. Euliano, J. S. Gravenstein, N. Gravenstein, D. Gravenstein. Essential Anesthesia: From Science to Practice, 2nd ed (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

 

 

Dutch Studies

BOOKS

Grant Kohn Goodman, Japan: The Dutch Experience (New York, Bloomsbury: 2012).

 

 

Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, Anti-foreignism and Western Learning in Early-modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986).

 

 

William G. Beasley, Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).

 

 

ARTICLES

Rangaku and Westernization

http://www.jstor.org/stable/312333

 

The Dutch Science (Rangaku) and its Influence on Japan

http://jkw-lipi.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/2__The-Dutch-Science-Rangaku-and-its-Influence-on-Japan__JKWPSDR__Vol.3-No.2-Thn-2012__Erlita-Tantri__page-141-158.pdf

 

 

 

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

https://www.imss.org/

 

Anesthesia History Association

http://ahahq.org/

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

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VIDEO

National History Day Documentary on Anesthesia

 

History of Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital