"St. Luke’s International Hospital, Hashimoto Hirotoshi, and the Medical Reformation in Post-WWII Japan" (2019)
Hiro Fujimoto, "Minkan kara no sengo iryō kaikaku: Seiruka kokusai byōin to Hashimoto Hirotoshi ni chūmoku shite
[St. Luke’s International Hospital, Hashimoto Hirotoshi, and the Medical Reformation in Post-WWII Japan] ," Nihon ishigaku zasshi, Vol. 65, No. 4, 2018, pp. 426–439.
藤本大士「民間からの戦後医療改革――聖路加国際病院と橋本寛敏に注目して」『日本医史学雑誌』(日本医史学会)65巻4号、2019年、426–439頁。
Hiro Fujimoto, "Minkan kara no sengo iryō kaikaku: Seiruka kokusai byōin to Hashimoto Hirotoshi ni chūmoku shite
[St. Luke’s International Hospital, Hashimoto Hirotoshi, and the Medical Reformation in Post-WWII Japan] ," Nihon ishigaku zasshi, Vol. 65, No. 4, 2018, pp. 426–439.
藤本大士「民間からの戦後医療改革――聖路加国際病院と橋本寛敏に注目して」『日本医史学雑誌』(日本医史学会)65巻4号、2019年、426–439頁。
After WWII, the Public Health and Welfare Section (PHW) in the General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP) started to reorganize the medical system in Japan. The reformation signified the shift from a German-style medical system to an American-style medical system. Historians of medicine examined how the PHW, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Education in Japan implemented the reformation, by using the GHQ/SCAP documents. In this article, I will elucidate the role of private hospitals and physicians, who contributed to the new American-style medical system. Specifically, I will focus on St. Luke’s International Hospital and its director Dr. Hashimoto Hirotoshi. The hospital started to operate and expand before WWII, but during the post-war period, it played a significant role in promoting American medicine in accordance with the medical reformation of the PHW.