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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 January 2010
      29 June 1984
      ISBN:
      9780511621772
      9780521277860
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621772
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      (234 x 158 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.415kg, 260 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, Anthropology
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    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.’

    Source: Robert J. Smith

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