I read Ann Vannetta's The Vaccinators last year, on the first days of Western-style medicine in Japan, and one of my main takeaways was how unusual these doctor

I read Ann Vannetta's The Vaccinators last year, on the first days of Western-style medicine in Japan, and one of my main takeaways was how unusual these doctors were for their time and their culture, often risking political persecution, building a kind of underground network of knowledge. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1440324.The_Vaccinators https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1440324.The_Vaccinators