Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View [Paperback]

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Author)

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Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Jun 29 1984)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521277868
ISBN-13: 978-0521277860
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.3 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 440 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #907,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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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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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

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4.0 out of 5 stars an excellent cultural study of Japanese attitudes toward health and the body, Aug 22 2010

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This review is from: Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View (Paperback)

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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