Regenerating Japan
Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajiro's Evolution and Human Life
Samenvatting
As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that era’s most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and popularizer of biomedicine, Oka Asajiro (1868–1944).

