Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition - operates on several different levels. In this book Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney provides a detailed and historically informed account of the cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan. In contrast to most ethnomedical studies, this book pays careful attention to everyday hygienic practices and beliefs, as well as presenting a comprehensive picture of formalized medicine, health care aspects of Japanese religions, and biomedicine. These different systems compete with one another at some levels, but are complementary in providing health care to urban Japanese, who often use more than one system simultaneously. As an unequalled portrayal of health care in a modern industrial, but non-Western, setting, it will be of widespread interest to scholars and students of anthropology, medicine, and East Asian studies.
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'For sheer virtuosity it would be difficult to find another book like this in the field of Japanese studies; and it also exceeds the range of any book I know on health and illness. Ohnuki-Tierney has written about central aspects of Japanese society and thought in so persuasive a way that anyone interested in Japan will have to read this book. It will be a landmark.' Robert J. Smith
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A detailed and historically-informed account of the cultural practices and meaning of health care in urban Japan. The text discusses everyday hygienic practices, as well as formalized medicine that combines traditional treatments with Western biomedicine.
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an excellent cultural study of Japanese attitudes toward health and the body,
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It has been quite a few years since I read this book, but it is one that comes to mind frequently. Ohnuki-Tierney does an excellent job of outlining fundamental cultural principles that shape Japanese attitudes (and behaviors) towards health and illness. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand medical pluralism as it occurs on-the-ground, in the daily lives of people who are living in a medical culture quite different from that of North Americans.
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Daily hygienic practices are based on one of the most fundamental concepts in any culture: what is clean and what is dirty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cultural germs, common chopsticks, cancer verdict, smallpox deity, biomedical doctors, urban magic, inborn constitution, primary specialization, medical pluralism, medical efficacy, illness etiology, daily hygiene, illness causation, people dirt, spatial classification, dualistic universe, native anthropologists, medical specializations, medical roles, aborted fetus, natal home, medical functions, pluralistic system, humoral imbalance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Ishikiri Shrine, World War, Nakayama Temple, Deity of the Toilet, New Year's Day, Asahi April, Ikeda Shoten Igaku, Asahi March, Konnyaku Enma, Asahi February, Asahi May, Kitchen God, Koyasu Kannon, People's Republic of China, World Health Organization New!
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cultural germs, common chopsticks, cancer verdict, smallpox deity, biomedical doctors, urban magic, inborn constitution, primary specialization, medical pluralism, medical efficacy, illness etiology, daily hygiene, illness causation, people dirt, spatial classification, dualistic universe, native anthropologists, medical specializations, medical roles, aborted fetus, natal home, medical functions, pluralistic system, humoral imbalance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Ishikiri Shrine, World War, Nakayama Temple, Deity of the Toilet, New Year's Day, Asahi April, Ikeda Shoten Igaku, Asahi March, Konnyaku Enma, Asahi February, Asahi May, Kitchen God, Koyasu Kannon, People's Republic of China, World Health Organization New!
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- Asian Medical Systems by Charles Leslie on 6 pages
- Japanese Culture and Behaviour: Selected Readings by Takie Sugiyama Lebra in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Primitive Classification by Emile Durkheim in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology by Raoul Naroll in Back Matter
- Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change by Rene Dubos in Back Matter
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- War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan by William R. LaFleur in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950 (Asian American Experience) by Susan L. Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Right to Life in Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Noel Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) by Charles Leslie in Front Matter
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