Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions
| dc.contributor.author | Norbeck, Edward | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lock, Margaret | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-05T20:07:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-05T20:07:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1987 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780824880774 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62876 | |
| dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | |
| dc.subject | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General | |
| dc.title | Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions | |
| dc.type | book | |
| dcterms.description | This is one of the first attempts to explore the effects of social, political, and cultural variables on the interpretation of ideas about health, illness, and medical care in a technologically rich society. In this collection of essays, five anthropologists and one political scientist demonstrate that modern medical care in Japan is not a uniform, value-free scientific endeavor, but rather a culturally shaped part of a complex pluralistic medical system that is, itself, the product of a specific historical and social tradition. The comparative study of health, illness, and medical care provides a rich source of cross-fertilization of ideas among the social sciences. This collection of essays offers new insights on and raises new questions about contemporary Japanese society, biomedicine as a cultural product, and the transformation that occurs when medical knowledge and techniques are used in a different cultural milieu. | |
| dcterms.extent | 227 Pages | |
| dcterms.language | eng | |
| dcterms.publisher | Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press | |
| dcterms.type | text |