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Publication St. Luke's Hospital and the Modernisation of Japan, 1874–1928(Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 2013-12) Washington, GarrettBy 1902, Japanese physicians' mastery of western medicine had made western missionary doctors and their hospitals seemingly obsolete. One missionary hospital, however, opened its doors that year, and represents a notable exception to the trend of missionary medicine's decline in modern Japan. While other missionary hospital enterprises faltered, St. Luke's Hospital survived the tumultuous modernisation of Japan and its health care system to become one of Japan's premier general hospitals. Using hospital reports, fundraising materials, correspondence, memoirs, government statistics and other sources, this paper sheds light on the hospital's early success and its important place in the development of medical care, education, and public health in modern Japan.Publication Christianity and ‘True Education’: Yasui Tetsu’s Contribution to Women’s Education in Imperial Japan(Brill, 2018-09-04) Washington, GarrettPublication Preaching Modern Japan: National Imaginaries and Protestant Sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo(University of Hawaii Press, 2014) Washington, GarrettPublication Pulpits as Lecterns: Discourses of Social Change inside Tokyo’s Protestant Churches, 1890–1920(2009) Washington, GarrettBeginning in the 1890s, Protestant churches in Tokyo offered a new kind of social space that encouraged an open, verbal communication of ideas about a modern and improved Japan. Such churches differed dramatically from the majority of Japanese secular and religious gathering spaces that were directly influenced by their strong ties to state authority. At church, pastors and respected lay speakers told listeners to individually imagine the nation and their appropriate places within it. Speaking and listening with the men were many educated, socially minded women who had just been barred from various forms of public life. These men and women used the church space to imagine and realize alternative versions of a new Japan. To analyze the discursive distinctiveness of Tokyo's Protestant churches, this paper examines laymen's speeches made before the Women's Group of Tokyo's most socially active church, Hongō, sermons in Tokyo's two largest Kumiai (Congregationalist) churches, Hongō and Reinanzaka, and the accounts of attendees influenced by both.Publication Militarism and morality (Higher education)(1998) Gordon, DPublication Visions and revisions of eighteenth-century France.(1998) Gordon, DPublication On the supposed obsolescence of the French Enlightenment(1999) Gordon, DPublication Postmodernism and the French Enlightenment: Introduction(1999) Gordon, DPublication Venality: The sale of offices in eighteenth-century France.(1999) Gordon, DPublication Publication Democracy and deferral of justice in France and the United States(2001-01-01) Gordon, DPublication Publication Rousseau and Geneva: From the first discourse to the social contract, 1749-1762.(2000-01-01) Gordon, DPublication The theater of terror: The Jacobin execution in comparative and theoretical perspective(2003-01-01) Gordon, DPublication On Jean-jacques Rousseau, considered as one of the first authors of the Revolution.(2003-01-01) Gordon, DPublication Interchange: Legacies of the Vietnam War(2006-01-01) Anderson, D; Appy, C; Bradley, MP; Brigham, RK; Engelmann, T; Hagopian, P; Huynh, LD; Young, MBPublication Publication Is tocqueville defunct?(2004-01-01) Gordon, DPublication A colony of citizens: Revolution and slave emancipation in the french caribbean, 1787-1804(2005-01-01) Gordon, D