鈴木晃仁


個人基本情報
氏名:
鈴木晃仁(すずきあきひと)
職位:
教授
研究室:
日吉来往舎 609号室 asuzuki@hc.keio.ac.jp
略歴:
1986年 東京大学卒(教養学科)
1992年 ロンドン大学Ph.D.
1997年より現職
最終取得学位:
Ph.D. 医学史 ロンドン大学 (1992)
受賞学術賞:
義塾賞(2006年)
所属学会:
Society for Social History of Medicine
American Association for the History of Medicine
日本医史学会(評議員)
日本精神医学史学会(監事)
教育活動
担当科目(2007年度)
[通学課程]
歴史、自由研究セミナー、ジェンダー論
[通信教育課程]
なし
教育方針:
着実に基礎的な力をつける教育と、学問のスリルを共有できる興奮。この二つの両立を目指しています。
研究活動
専攻・研究領域:
医学史
現在の研究活動
研究課題名<1>:
精神医療の歴史
途中経過及び今後の計画:
精神医療の歴史:19世紀イギリスについて書物を一冊上梓。
20世紀東京の精神病院の歴史についての論文を出版しながら、まとめ方を模索している。(仮題Madness in Modernist Tokyo: Doctors and Patients at Oji Brain Hospital)
研究課題名<2>:
近代日本の病気と医療の社会環境史
途中経過及び今後の計画:
論文を執筆しながら、まとめ方を模索している。
研究課題名<3>:
疫学の歴史
途中経過及び今後の計画:
考えはじめたばかりです
主要業績:
Publications I: Monographs (単著)
  • Madness at Home: the Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England 1820-1860 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)
Publications II: Edited Volumes(編著)
  • Science of the Body and the Mind, vol.2 of Literature and Science 1660-1834 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002), co-edited with Clark Lawlor
  • 『分別される生命−20世紀社会の医療戦略』(東京:法政大学出版局、2008予定)川越修と共編
  • 『身体医文化論IV−食餌の技法』(東京:慶應義塾大学出版会、2005)石塚久郎と共編
  • 『身体医文化論−感覚と欲望』(東京:慶應義塾大学出版会、2002)石塚久郎と共編
Publications III: Articles in Academic Journals and Books (学術誌・学術書掲載論文)
  • “Individual Lifestyle and State Policy: Prevention of Cholera in Modern Japan”, in Hormoz Ebrahimnejad ed., Medical Modernization in the Internationa Perspective (London: Routledge, 2008 forthcoming).
  • “Global Theory, Local Practice: Psychiatric Therapeutics in Japan in the Twentieth Century”, in Thomas Mueller and Waltraud Ernst ed., Transmission of Ideas in History of Psychiatry (London: Routledge, forthcoming)
  • “Lunacy and Labouring Men: Narratives of Male Vulnerability in Mid-Victorian London”, in John Pickstone and Roberta Bivins eds., Medicine, Madness and Social History (London: Palgrave, 2007).
  • “Revisiting Moral Treatment: Psychiatric Therapeutics in England 1650-1850”, 『日本医史学雑誌』52巻(2006)
  • “Were Asylums Men’s Place?: Male Excess in Asylum Population in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century”, in Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra et.al. eds., Culture of Psychiatry (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2005), 295-311.
  • “υχιατρικη θεραπευτικη και το κοινο στην αγγλια το δεκατο ογδοο και δεκατο ενατο αιωνα”, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Greek Edition, 10(2003), 105-108.
  • “A Brain Hospital in Tokyo and Its Private and Public Patients, 1926-1945”, History of Psychiatry, 14(2003), 337-360.
  • “Family, the State and the Insane in Japan 1900-1945” in Roy Porter and David Wright eds., Psychiatric Confinement in International Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 193-225.
  • “Psychiatric Therapeutics and ‘the Public’ in England in the Eighteenth- and the Nineteenth Centuries”, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 10(2002), 123-26.
  • “Narcissistic Invalid or Heroic Genius?: Metaphors of Two Models of Change-of-Air Treatment for Consumption in 18th- and 19th-Century England”, The Imagination of the Body and the History of Bodily Experience, International Research Symposium Proceedings, No.15, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, 2001, 137-148.
  • (With Clark Lawlor), “Disease of the Self: Representing Consumption, 1700-1830”, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74(2000), 458-94.
  • “Enclosing and Disclosing Lunatics within the Family Walls: Domestic Psychiatric Regime and the Public Sphere in Early Nineteenth-Century England”, in Outside the Walls of Asylum: The History of Care in the Community 1750-2000, eds. by Peter Bartlett and David Wright (London: Athlone Press, 1999), 115-131.
  • “Framing Psychiatric Subjectivity: Doctor, Patient, and Record-Keeping at Bethlem in the Nineteenth Century”, in Insanity, Institutions and Society: New Research in the Social History of Madness, eds. by Bill Forthyce and Joseph Melling (London: Routledge, 1999), 115-136.
  • “Reading Signs of Pregnancy in the Private and Public Spheres”, Medicine and the History of the Body: Proceedings of the 20th, 21st, and 22nd International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine, eds. by Yasuo Otsuka, Shizu Sakai, and Shigehisa Kuriyama (Tokyo: Ishiyaku EuroAmerica, 1999), 313-326
  • “Psychiatry without Mind in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of British Iatro-Mathematicians”, Archives internationales d’histoire des sciences, 48(1998), 119-146.
  • “‘Duumvirate of Rulers Within Us’: Politics and Pneumatology in Restoration England”, in Gerald Marshall ed., The Restoration Mind (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1997), 111-131
  • “Household and the Care of Lunatics in Eighteenth Century London”, in Richard Smith and Peregrine Horden eds., The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, and Institutions in History (London: Routledge, 1997), 153-175.
  • “Dualism and the Transformation of Psychiatric Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, History of Science, 33(1995), 417-447.
  • “Politics and Ideology of Non Restraint: the Case of the Hanwell Asylum”, Medical History, 39(1995), 1-17.
  • “Anti Lockean Enlightenment?: Mind and Body in Early Eighteenth Century English Medicine”, in Roy Porter ed., Medicine in the Enlightenment (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995), 336 59.
  • “Lunacy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England: Analysis of Quarter Sessions Records”, parts I & II, History of Psychiatry, 2 (1991), 437-56 & 3 (1992), 29-44.
  • 「治療の社会史的考察 − 滝野川健康調査(1938)を中心に」川越修・鈴木晃仁編集『分別される生命−20世紀の医療戦略』(東京:法政大学出版局、2008予定)
  • 「近代日本におけるジフテリア統計の分析」『三田学会雑誌』97巻4号(2005年1月), 21-37.
  • 「ナルシシズムの病−18世紀イングランドにおける結核の表象」村山敏勝編『病と文化−成蹊大学人文叢書3』(東京:風間書房、2005), 73-102.
  • 「戦前期東京における病気と身体経験 - 『滝野川健康調査』(昭和13年)を手がかりに」栗山茂久・北澤一利編『近代日本の身体感覚』(東京:青弓社、2004), 21-51.
  • 「霊魂と身体の政治的メタファーの類型学−17世紀の情念論を中心に」石塚久郎・鈴木晃仁共編『身体医文化論−感覚と欲望』(東京:慶應義塾大学出版会、2002), 91-115.
  • 「18・19世紀イングランドの精神医療」『臨床精神医学講座:補遺1 精神医療の歴史』(東京:中山書店、1999), 103-128.
  • 「18・19世紀ヨーロッパの精神医学における疾病概念と臨床の歴史的概観」『臨床精神医学講座』第1巻(東京、中山書店、1998), 390-405.
  • 「イギリス精神医学の形成−患者・施設・大学医学の視点から」『精神医学史研究』1( 1998), No.3, 46-53.
  • 「17世紀英国におけるデモノロジーの変容」『科学史・科学哲学』8号(1989), 41-51.
Publications IV: Essay Reviews, Research Notes and Shorter Articles (解説、研究ノートなど)
  • Area editor (Japan), The Dictionary of Medical Biographies, eds. by W.F. Bynum and Helen Bynum (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006).
  • “Medicine, State, and Society in Japan A.D. 500 − 2000”, in The Dictionary of Medical Biographies, eds. by W.F. Bynum and Helen Bynum (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006).
  • 10 Entries for The Dictionary of Medical Biographies, eds. by W.F. Bynum and Helen Bynum (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006).
  • Essay Review, “My Own Private England − the Madness of James Tilly Matthews and of his Times” History of Psychiatry, 16(2005), 497-502.
  • The Oxford Dictionary of National Biographies ed. by Colin Matthews (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2004), 3 entries “Robert Gardiner Hill”, “George Man Burrows”, and “William Battie”.
  • 「医学と英文学」(1)-(6) (連載)『英語青年』2006年4月号 − 9月号
  • 「感覚と欲望−問題の鳥瞰」石塚久郎・鈴木晃仁共編『身体医文化論−感覚と欲望』(東京:慶應義塾大学出版会、2002)(石塚と共同執筆、鈴木は主として1・4・5節を担当)
  • 「イギリスの医療」『放送大学大学院 文化科学教材 地域文化研究IIIヨーロッパの文化と社会 − イギリスを中心として』山内久明他編 (放送大学教育振興会、2002), 89-101.
  • 「医学と医療の歴史」斉藤修他編『社会経済史学の課題と展望』(東京:有斐閣、2002)426-439.
  • 「病気」『哲学の木』永井均他編(東京:講談社、2002)815-817.
  • 「医学と文学は何を共有しているのか − 『身体医文化論研究会』について」『三色旗』2001年3月号、2-8.
  • 「死体は誰のものだろうか?−−近代ヨーロッパの死体解剖の歴史」『三色旗』1999年7月号、29−46
  • 「Cheryce Kramer 論文への解説」『科学技術史』2号(1998)119-121
  • 「魔女狩りと近代ヨーロッパ」 『化学史研究』20巻(1993)37-53頁
Publications V: Book Reviews (書評)
  • Book Review of Roy Porter, Madness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), in British Journal of the History of Science, 38(2005), 136.
  • Book Review of Vincent Barras ed., Gesnerus, for Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
  • Book Review of Mathew Thomson, Psychological Subjects: Identity, Culture and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain, for Social History of Medicine.
  • Book Review of David Lederer, Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe, for Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
  • Book Review of Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull, Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), in Nature, 17 Jan 2002, 262-263.
  • Book Review of Mark Micale, Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1995), in History of Psychiatry, 7(1996), 472-3.
  • Book Review of Joel Eigen, Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), in Medical History, 40(1996), 512-3.
  • Book Review of Leonie de Goei and Joost Vijelaar eds., Proceedings of the 1st European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care (Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 1993), in Medical History 39(1995), 123-4.
  • Book Review of Andrew Scull, The Most Solitary of Afflictions (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), in European Association for the History of Psychiatry Newsletter, no.4 (1993), 14-15.
  • 書評 アルフレッド・クロスビー『史上最悪のインフルエンザ』(東京:みすず書房、2002)『社会経済史学』近刊
  • 書評 小俣和一郎『精神医学の歴史』(東京:第三文明社、2005)『週間読書人』2005年7月15日号
  • 書評 リン・ハント編『ポルノグラフィの発明』末廣幹他訳(東京:ありな書房、2002)『図書新聞』2002年9月21日
  • 書評 松村高夫他『戦争と疾病 731部隊のもたらしたもの』(本の友社、1997)『三田学会雑誌』
  • 書評 見市雅俊・斎藤修・脇村孝平・飯島渉−編 『疾病・開発・帝国医療 − アジアにおける病気と医療の歴史学』(東京大学出版会 2001)『社会経済史学』67(2002), 709-711.
  • 書評 Elizabeth Lunbeck, Psychiatric Persuasion (Princeton University Press, 1994), Jack D. Pressman, Last Resort (Cambridge University Press, 1998)」『精神医学史研究』5(2001), 63-65.
  • 書評 田代和生『江戸時代 朝鮮薬材調査の研究』(慶應大学出版会、1999)」『三田学会雑誌』93(2000),
    Papers Presented at Symposia, Conferences, Workshops and Seminars
  • “Towards topographical history of the environment of Japan”, a paper presented at the Asian Studies Conference in Japan, June 2007, Tokyo, Japan.
  • “Hysterics and Degenerates, Japanese Style: Doctors and Patients in a Private Psychiatric Hospital in Modernist Tokyo”, a paper presented in July, 2007, at Keio University for its lecture series for the COE programme.
  • “A Private Psychiatric Hospital in Modernist Tokyo 1920-1945”, a paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, held in June 2007 at Padua in Italy.
  • “Medicine, Climate and Global Immigration in the Japanese Empire 1930-1945”, a paper read at the History of Science Society, PSA and 4S Co-Located Meeting, November 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
  • “From the Edge of Endemicity to the Centre of Cleanliness?: Cholera in Japan and East Asia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century”, Social Science History Association 2005 Annual Meeting, November 2006, Minneapolis, USA.
  • “Cotton, Rats, and Plague in Japan”, a paper presented at the Session on “Diseases and Enviornmental Changes in East Asian History”, at XIV International Economic History Congress, August 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
  • “Exposure to Infectious Diseases in Modern Japan II: The Case of Measles”, a paper presented at the session on “Anthropometrics, Markets and Disease in Historical Standards of Living: Eurasian and American Countries”, at XIV International Economic History Congress, August 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
  • “Between Ukiyo-e and Kamikaze: Medicalization of Suicide in Early Twentieth-Century Japan”, a paper presented at the International Workshop on the History of Suicide, August 2006, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • “Medicine, Climate and Global Immigration in the Japanese Empire 1930-1945”, a paper presented at AAS Annual Meeting, April 2006, San Francisco, USA.
  • “The Spatio-Temporal Structure of Viral Parasite”, International Workshop on Epidemic Diseases, Ecological Changes, and Global Governance, December 2005, Osaka, Japan.
  • “Morbidity and the Pattern of the Treatment Choice in 20th-Century Tokyo”, read at the SSHA 2005 Annual Conference, November 2005, at Portland, USA,.
  • “Global Theory, Local Practice: Early Twentieth-Century Psychiatric Therapeutics in Japan and Other Countries”, Society for Social History of Medicine, “Comparison, Transfer and Histoire Croisée in the History of Psychiatry”, held in September 2005, at Southampton, UK.
  • “Drugs, Consumer Choice, and the Westernization of Medicine in Japan”, read at Association of Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, March 2005, Chicago, USA.
  • “Measles and the Spatio-Temporal Structure of Modern Japan”, The Fourth Symposium on Digital Earth, March 2005, Tokyo.
  • “Illness in Tokyo in 1938”, Social Science History Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, November 2004, Chicago, USA.
  • (with Takeshi Nagashima) “Time, Space and Infection: Medical Geography of Measles in Japan 1900-1960”, seminar for history of medicine, Institute fuer Geschichite der Medizin, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, June 2004, Duesseldorf, Germany.
  • (with Takeshi Nagashima) “Air, Water, and the Metropolis: Infectious Diseases in Tokyo 1900-1940”, Social Science History Association, 2003 Annual Meeting, November 2003, Baltimore, USA.
  • “Domestic Dynamics and Psychiatric Hospitalization in Ohji Brain Hospital in Tokyo, 1925-1945”, Workshop for Culture of Psychiatry and the Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century, September 2003, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  • “Sense of Guilt as a Criterion of Psychiatric Normalcy: Oji Brain Hospital and its Patients in the Early 20th Century Japan”, The Fifth Conference for the European Association for the History of Psychiatry, September 2002, Madrid, Spain.
  • “Home or Hospital?: The State, Family, and the Insane in Japan 1900-1945”, Hannah International Conference on the History of Mental Illness, April 2001, Toronto, Canada.
  • “Repent and Be a New Man: Oji Brain Hospital and Its Patients in Early 20c Tokyo”, International Workshop, “The Social and Cultural History of Psychiatric Hospitalization: Comparative Perspective”, December 2000, Keio University, Tokyo.
  • “Two Metaphors of Change-of-Air-Treatment for Consumption in 18th- and 19th-Century England”, 15th International Symposium, “The Imagination of the Body and the History of Bodily Experience”, January 2000, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
  • “Publicizing the Interior World of Insanity: Domestic Narratives in the Casebooks of the Hanwell Asylum in Mid-Nineteenth Century”, 4th European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care, September 1999, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • “Novelistic Narrative in Psychiatric Case Histories”, 10th International Congress on the Enlightenment, July 1999, University College, Dublin, Ireland.
  • “Narcissistic Invalid or Heroic Genius?” Typologies of Male Beauty and Consumption in England in the Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Centuries”, International Symposium “History of Beauty and Health”, June 1999, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • “Mind, Body, and the Public: History of Somatic Treatment for the Insane in England 1700-1850”, March 1999, International Symposium “History of Psychiatry on the Threshold to the 21st Century ? Two Millennia of Psychiatry in West and East”, Held at Nagoya City Medical School, Nagoya, Japan.
  • “Travel and the Treatment of Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century”, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 29th Annual Meeting, April 1998, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
  • “Environmental History in Britain”, The Second Anglo-Japanese Conference of Historians, Sept 1997, Keio University, Tokyo.
  • “Reading Signs of Pregnancy in the Private and Public Spheres”, “Medicine and Expressive Body”, the 22nd International Taniguchi Symposium on the Camparative History of Medicine, September 1997, Susono, Japan.
  • “Communal vs. Institutional: The Making of Case Histories at Bethlem in the Nineteenth Century”, “Insanity, Institutions and Society: New Research in the Social History of Madness”, Conference of Society for the Social History of Medicine, April 1997, University of Exeter, UK.
  • “Modernity, the Rise of the Subject, and History of Psychiatry”, “Writing History of Human Sciences”, March 1997, University of Aberdeen, UK.
  • “The Construction of Psychiatric Cases at Bethlem Hospital in the Early- and Mid-Nineteenth Century”, “Colloque Histoire de la psychiarie: Nouvelles approches, nouvelles perspectives”, Februaru 1997, Institut Romand d”Histoire de la Médecine, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • “Psychiatric Knowledge in Public and Private Spheres”, The Third European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care, September 1996, Munich, Germany.
  • “Psychiatric Knowledge in Public and Private Spheres”, “Crossing Boundaries”: Third Annual Conference of British and American Societies of History of Science, July 1996, Edinburgh, UK.
  • “Consuming Metaphors of a Disease: Travel and the Treatment for Consumption in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”, “Consumption: Eating--Reading--Shopping”, June 1996, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
  • “Communal vs. Institutional: Understanding Patients at Bethlem in the Nineteenth Century”, “Insanity, Identities, and Institutions: Madness and Pauperism in 18th-19th Century Britain”, March 1996, University of Exeter, UK.
  • “Psychiatric Discourse in the Scottish Enlightenment”, ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Perspectives on the History of Psychiatry in Scotland’, July 1995, University of Glasgow, UK.
  • “The Structure of the Psychiatric Bedside: Case Histories, Legal Records, and Private Correspondence”, Wellcome Symposium, `Voices from the Past: Source Materials for the History of Psychiatry', February 1995, the Wellcome Institute, London.
  • “Re assessing Non Restraint”, The Second European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care, August 1993, London.
  • “William Cullen and the Birth of Psychiatry”, The Second European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care, August 1993, London.
  • “Family, Community and Lunacy in Early Modern England”, Society for the Social History of Medicine, July 1992, All Souls College, Oxford.
  • “Soul Lost and Regained: British Iatro Mathematicians 1690-1720”, “Enlightenment Day”, the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, February 1991, Imperial College, London.
  • “The Epistemological Model of Insanity: Battie-Monro Debate”, The First European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care, October 1990, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
  • 「近代日本における麻疹の長期統計の分析」第64回日本公衆衛生学会総会、札幌、2005年9月
  • 「近代日本におけるコレラの伝播(1)」第106回日本医史学会、北里大学、2005年5月
  • 「戦前期精神病院入院患者の男女比について」第8回精神医学史学会、慶應義塾大学、2004年11月
  • 「麻疹の周期性と近代日本の疫病伝播の分析」第105回日本医史学会、鶴見大学、2004年5月
  • 「19世紀イングランドにおける禁治産処分の歴史にみる国家と家庭 − George Smith の事例を中心に」第54回日本西洋史学会、東北学院大学、2004年5月
  • 「近代日本における生活水準の変化と疾病衛生環境の変動−公衆衛生と疾病指標の府県別分析から」(永島剛と合同)慶應義塾大学経済学会、2004年3月
  • 「日本の近代化と被曝機会の増加について−−1900年から1960年の麻疹の府県別流行周期の分析」経済発展研究会、一橋大学、2004年1月
  • 「18・19世紀イングランドにおける禁治産処分の歴史の研究」第7回精神医学史学会、名古屋大学、2003年10月
  • 「近代日本の伝染病統計の分析 (1)」第104回日本医史学会、九州大学、2003年4月
  • 「昭和戦前期の精神医療におけるジェンダーバイアス」第102回日本医史学会、日本歯科大学、2002年9月
  • 「物語の装置としてのカルテ」、第74回日本英文学会総会シンポジアム「身体医文化論へのいざない」北星大学、2002年5月
  • 「Heroic Treatment の衰退 −19世紀イギリスの精神医学のケースを中心に−」第5回精神医学史学会、京都大学、2001年10月
  • 「戦前期日本における精神病院収容患者の増加」第101回日本医史学会、東北大学、2001年9月
  • 「19世紀イギリス精神病院における薬物療法の変化」第70回社会経済史学会、パネルディスカッション「治療の現場を再構成する」上智大学、2001年5月
  • 「19世紀ロンドンにおける患者の家族と精神医療」第4回精神医学史学会、つくば大学、2000年10月
  • 「精神医療の「福祉」化と患者の家族 --ハンウェル狂人収容院のケース」第50回日本西洋史学会、小シンポジウム「福祉国家の社会史」、大阪外語大学 2000年5月
  • 「精神病院のプロトタイプ? −− 初期イギリスの私立狂人院の光と影」 1998年10 月岩手医科大学精神科同門会、特別招待講演
  • 「イギリス精神医学の形成 − 患者・施設・大学医学の視点から」第一回精神医学史学会・特別シンポジアム「精神医学はなぜ生まれたのか」1997年12月
Others (その他)
  • Editor of the Japanese Section, Dictionary of Medical Biography (New York: Greenwood Press, 2006 forthcoming).
  • Advisory Editor to Literature and Science 1660-1834 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002).
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病気と医学から、身体を中心にして文化と社会と環境の歴史に光を当てる新しい視点を構築しようとしています。歴史学のフロンティアの領域であると同時に、現在の医療の問題を解き明かす確実な視座を築くための作業であると思っています。