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BL
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1002939
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b757309
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Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko.
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| Title & Author
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Illness and culture in contemporary Japan : : an anthropological view /\ Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1984.
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xiv, 242 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0521259827
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: 0521277868
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: 9780521259828
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: 9780521277860
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-238) and index.
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| Contents
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Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Basic Concepts and Attitudes Toward Health and Illness: 2. Japanese germs -- 3. My very own illness: illness in a dualistic world view -- 4. Physiomorphism (somatizion): an aspect of the Japanese illness etiology -- Part II. Medical Pluralism: 5. Kanpo: traditional Japanese medicine of Chinese origin -- 6. Medical roles of Japenese religions: a descriptive overview -- 7. Medical roles of Japanese religions: a historical-symbolic interpretation -- 8. Doctors and outpatients: biomedicine (I) -- 9. Hospitalization: biomedicine (II) -- 10. Medical pluralism -- Summary -- References -- Index.
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| Abstract
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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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Medical anthropology-- Japan.
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Medical care-- Japan.
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Traditional medicine-- Japan.
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Attitude to Health.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional.
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Anthropologie médicale-- Japon.
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Médecine populaire-- Japon.
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Soins médicaux-- Japon.
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Anthropologie médicale-- Japon.
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Anthropologie-- Japon.
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Ethnomédecine-- Japon.
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Manners and customs.
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Medical anthropology-- Japan.
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Medical anthropology.
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Medical care-- Japan.
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Medical care.
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Soins médicaux-- Japon.
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Traditional medicine.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Gezondheid.
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Japan, Social life and customs, 1945-
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Japan.
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Japon, Mœurs et coutumes, 1945-
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Japan.
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Japon, Moeurs et coutumes, 1945- ...
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1/0952
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| LC Classification
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GN635.J2O46 1984
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| NLM classification
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WB 50 JJ3O38i 1984
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73.61bcl
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