The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences / Edition 1

The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences / Edition 1

by Aya Takahashi
ISBN-10:
0415674964
ISBN-13:
9780415674966
Pub. Date:
12/20/2011
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415674964
ISBN-13:
9780415674966
Pub. Date:
12/20/2011
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences / Edition 1

The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences / Edition 1

by Aya Takahashi
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Overview

In the years after 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the west. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed from 1868 to the present. It discusses how Japanese nursing adopted western models, implementing 'Nightingale-ism' in a conscious, caricature way, and implemented it more fully, at least on the surface, than in Britain. At the same time Japanese nurses had to cope, with great difficulty, with traditional Japanese attitudes, which were strongly opposed to women being involved in professions of any kind, and, as the book shows, western models did not in fact penetrate very deeply.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415674966
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/20/2011
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Aya Takahashi is Associate Professor at the International Student Center, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Table of Contents

Section One: An Imported Profession
Section Two: The Development of a Japanese Model
Section Three: 'Re-encounter' with Western Nursing Professionalism
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