Aya Homei
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 287860 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aya Homei |
| NOMBRES | Aya |
| APELLIDO | Homei |
| FIRMA | HOMEI A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2814-3789 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Gender in Science Diplomacy beyond Global North and South
Decentring histories of science diplomacy
This special issue brings together a diverse set of cases from Asia with the aim of decentring established historical narratives about science diplomacy. With a critical perspective bringing together the bodies of literature in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) and critical Asian Studies, we argue that these cases foreground a geopolitical history with multiple forms of sovereignty – often contested ones – and a …
Concluding conversation
Gordon Barrett ( GB ): Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK (special issue co-editor)
Cold War Social Science
Science for Governing Japan's Population
Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been seen as problematic. What roles have population experts played in turning this demographic trend into a government concern? Aya Homei examines the med…
Le développement historique du discours sur la qualité de la population au Japon
Afin d’analyser les mesures politiques d’amélioration de la qualité de la population dans l’après-guerre au Japon, le présent article contextualise les discours tenus autour de la « qualité de la population » (jinkō shishitsu 人口資質, plus largement jinkō no shitsu 人口の質) qui soutinrent les tentatives de l’État japonais dans sa gouvernance de la population depuis l’avant-guerre. D’un côté, la continuité historique du concept de qualité de la populati…
Critical approaches to reproduction and population in post-war Japan
This short essay introduces the special issue, ‘Critical approaches to reproduction and population in post-war Japan’. It first explains that the issue came out of the two-year project entitled ‘Historicizing the Discourses of Declining Fertility and Ageing Population in East Asia, in which we reappraised Japan’s post-war history by identifying the demographic, discursive, social, scientific, and political factors that shaped the post-war populat…
Birth control survey research, technical bureaucrats and the imagining of Japan’s population, 1945–60
This article explores a birth control survey conducted by the Japanese government between 1945–1960, and analyses how this research, both as scientific practice and knowledge, resonated with government efforts to manage the population during post-war reconstruction. Focusing on Shinozaki Nobuo, a Ministry of Health and Welfare ‘technical bureaucrat’ (gijutsu kanryō or gikan) specializing in population issues, this article depicts how human agency…
Integrating Parasite Eradication with Family Planning
This article depicts how anti-parasite and family planning campaigns developed in Japan and Korea independently after the Second World War, as specifically domestic public health initiatives that directly contributed to the post-war reconstruction (Japan) and nation-building (South Korea) exercises, and examines how they were later incorporated into development aid projects from the 1960s. By juxtaposing domestic histories of Japan as a former co…
Why did the Japanese Government take so long to approve the intrauterine contraceptive device
While the majority of East Asian countries embraced the modern intrauterine device (IUD) during the 1960s, the sale and distribution of the IUD in Japan was not authorized until 1974. In this paper, I address why the Japanese Government took so long to permit the use of the IUD. Firstly, I examine scientific debates in Japan during the early 1950s on the efficacy of the IUD and associated health risks, to illustrate how the Government's conservat…
Hoi-eun Kim, Doctors of Empire
With Doctors of Empire, Kim has finally done what scholars specialising in modern Japanese medicine wished to do for years. By tracing the activities of nearly 1,200 Japanese medical students in the Meiji period (1868–1912) who flocked to German universities to learn cutting-edge medicine, and of the dozen German doctors appointed by the Japanese government to build the medical infrastructure in the country, Kim has tactfully demonstrated how Jap…
Between the West and Asia
This paper studies the formation of Japanese ventures in family planning deployed in various villages in Asia from the 1960s onward in the name of development aid. By critically examining how Asia became the priority area for Japan's international cooperation in family planning and by analyzing how the adjective "humanistic" was used to underscore the originality of Japan's family planning program overseas, the paper shows that visions of Japanes…
Population Control in Cold War Asia
Ajia No Shussan to Kazoku Keikaku—“umu, Umanai, Umenai” Shintai Wo Meguru Seiji アジアの出産と家族計画—「産む・産まない・産めない」身体をめぐる政治 [ Childbirth and Family Planning in Asia
Sociopolitical implications of women's reproductive bodies have been subject to historical scrutiny over the decades since the second wave of feminism and since Foucault provided the notion of biop
Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945–52
Midwives and the Medical Marketplace in Modern Japan
This article deals with the commercial aspect of midwifery in Japan since the Meiji period. In focusing on the important yet often neglected aspect of the history of medically trained midwives, it aims to complement existing scholarship that tends to emphasize the role of midwives in the construction of the modern Japanese state. The article analyzes and contextualizes health-related advertisements published in San'iku shimbun, a newspaper aimed …
The contentious death of Mr Kuboyama
This article analyses ties among medicine, science, society and politics by examining a dispute between Japanese and American medical scientists over the death of Mr Kuboyama Aikichi, a member of the crew of the Japanese tuna trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5, who fell ill after he was exposed to the radioactive fallout produced by an American thermonuclear bomb detonated on 1 March 1954. In Japan, he was regarded as the first Japanese victim of the H-b…
Michael Shiyung Liu, Prescribing Colonization
Journal Article Michael Shiyung Liu, Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practices and Policies in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895–1945 Get access Michael Shiyung Liu, Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practices and Policies in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895–1945, Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2009. Pp. x + 286. $25. ISBN 978 0 924304 57 6. Aya Homei Aya Homei University of Manchester [email protected] Search for oth…
Jonathan D. Mackintosh, Homosexuality and Manliness in Post-War Japan
Following the rise of interest and critical engagement with literature on sexualities, readers in English-speaking areas have also been able to enjoy innovative works on the history of Japanese homosexuality over the last two decades. These surveys illustrate modes and practices of sexualities in Japan that show a hybridity between local rubrics and western ideas, including modern sexology introduced and popularised in Japan from the last quarter…
[A Risk Called Life
Specialization and medical mycology in the US, Britain and Japan
Birth Attendants in Meiji Japan
This article analyses two kinds of medical textbook for midwives published in Japan in the Meiji period (1868–1912), and compares them with the oldest extant guide published in the Edo period (1603–1867). Meiji textbooks, which became foundational to the rise of ‘new-midwives’, were written by a local hygiene officer in the 1880s, and later by obstetric-gynaecologists. Both these groups emerged as ‘modern’ professions in the late nineteenth centu…
Practical Pursuits
Journal Article Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan Get access Aya Homei Aya Homei University of [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl007 Published: 01 August 2006
Tempos modernos, novos partos e novas parteiras
As shin-sanba, ou 'novas parteiras' medicalizadas, que apareceram durante o período Meiji (1868-1912) no Japão, parecem ter, aos olhos atuais, substituído rapidamente e sem conflito as 'velhas parteiras' (kyû-sanba) e as cada vez mais criminalizadas 'parteiras não licenciadas' (mumenkyo-sanba), enquanto a profissão de parteira foi se desenvolvendo progressivamente como profissão médica moderna. Este artigo sugere que a história das parteiras na e…
Birth Attendants in Meiji Japan
This article analyses two kinds of medical textbook for midwives published in Japan in the Meiji period (1868–1912), and compares them with the oldest extant guide published in the Edo period (1603–1867). Meiji textbooks, which became foundational to the rise of ‘new-midwives’, were written by a local hygiene officer in the 1880s, and later by obstetric-gynaecologists. Both these groups emerged as ‘modern’ professions in the late nineteenth centu…
Midwives and the Medical Marketplace in Modern Japan
This article deals with the commercial aspect of midwifery in Japan since the Meiji period. In focusing on the important yet often neglected aspect of the history of medically trained midwives, it aims to complement existing scholarship that tends to emphasize the role of midwives in the construction of the modern Japanese state. The article analyzes and contextualizes health-related advertisements published in San'iku shimbun, a newspaper aimed …
The contentious death of Mr Kuboyama
This article analyses ties among medicine, science, society and politics by examining a dispute between Japanese and American medical scientists over the death of Mr Kuboyama Aikichi, a member of the crew of the Japanese tuna trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5, who fell ill after he was exposed to the radioactive fallout produced by an American thermonuclear bomb detonated on 1 March 1954. In Japan, he was regarded as the first Japanese victim of the H-b…
Integrating Parasite Eradication with Family Planning
This article depicts how anti-parasite and family planning campaigns developed in Japan and Korea independently after the Second World War, as specifically domestic public health initiatives that directly contributed to the post-war reconstruction (Japan) and nation-building (South Korea) exercises, and examines how they were later incorporated into development aid projects from the 1960s. By juxtaposing domestic histories of Japan as a former co…
Tempos modernos, novos partos e novas parteiras
As shin-sanba, ou 'novas parteiras' medicalizadas, que apareceram durante o período Meiji (1868-1912) no Japão, parecem ter, aos olhos atuais, substituído rapidamente e sem conflito as 'velhas parteiras' (kyû-sanba) e as cada vez mais criminalizadas 'parteiras não licenciadas' (mumenkyo-sanba), enquanto a profissão de parteira foi se desenvolvendo progressivamente como profissão médica moderna. Este artigo sugere que a história das parteiras na e…
Birth Attendants in Meiji Japan
This article analyses two kinds of medical textbook for midwives published in Japan in the Meiji period (1868–1912), and compares them with the oldest extant guide published in the Edo period (1603–1867). Meiji textbooks, which became foundational to the rise of ‘new-midwives’, were written by a local hygiene officer in the 1880s, and later by obstetric-gynaecologists. Both these groups emerged as ‘modern’ professions in the late nineteenth centu…
Practical Pursuits
Journal Article Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan Get access Aya Homei Aya Homei University of [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 333–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl007 Published: 01 August 2006
Specialization and medical mycology in the US, Britain and Japan
[A Risk Called Life
Jonathan D. Mackintosh, Homosexuality and Manliness in Post-War Japan
Following the rise of interest and critical engagement with literature on sexualities, readers in English-speaking areas have also been able to enjoy innovative works on the history of Japanese homosexuality over the last two decades. These surveys illustrate modes and practices of sexualities in Japan that show a hybridity between local rubrics and western ideas, including modern sexology introduced and popularised in Japan from the last quarter…
Michael Shiyung Liu, Prescribing Colonization
Journal Article Michael Shiyung Liu, Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practices and Policies in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895–1945 Get access Michael Shiyung Liu, Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practices and Policies in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895–1945, Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2009. Pp. x + 286. $25. ISBN 978 0 924304 57 6. Aya Homei Aya Homei University of Manchester [email protected] Search for oth…
Midwives and the Medical Marketplace in Modern Japan
This article deals with the commercial aspect of midwifery in Japan since the Meiji period. In focusing on the important yet often neglected aspect of the history of medically trained midwives, it aims to complement existing scholarship that tends to emphasize the role of midwives in the construction of the modern Japanese state. The article analyzes and contextualizes health-related advertisements published in San'iku shimbun, a newspaper aimed …
The contentious death of Mr Kuboyama
This article analyses ties among medicine, science, society and politics by examining a dispute between Japanese and American medical scientists over the death of Mr Kuboyama Aikichi, a member of the crew of the Japanese tuna trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5, who fell ill after he was exposed to the radioactive fallout produced by an American thermonuclear bomb detonated on 1 March 1954. In Japan, he was regarded as the first Japanese victim of the H-b…
Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945–52
Between the West and Asia
This paper studies the formation of Japanese ventures in family planning deployed in various villages in Asia from the 1960s onward in the name of development aid. By critically examining how Asia became the priority area for Japan's international cooperation in family planning and by analyzing how the adjective "humanistic" was used to underscore the originality of Japan's family planning program overseas, the paper shows that visions of Japanes…
Population Control in Cold War Asia
Ajia No Shussan to Kazoku Keikaku—“umu, Umanai, Umenai” Shintai Wo Meguru Seiji アジアの出産と家族計画—「産む・産まない・産めない」身体をめぐる政治 [ Childbirth and Family Planning in Asia
Sociopolitical implications of women's reproductive bodies have been subject to historical scrutiny over the decades since the second wave of feminism and since Foucault provided the notion of biop
Why did the Japanese Government take so long to approve the intrauterine contraceptive device
While the majority of East Asian countries embraced the modern intrauterine device (IUD) during the 1960s, the sale and distribution of the IUD in Japan was not authorized until 1974. In this paper, I address why the Japanese Government took so long to permit the use of the IUD. Firstly, I examine scientific debates in Japan during the early 1950s on the efficacy of the IUD and associated health risks, to illustrate how the Government's conservat…
Hoi-eun Kim, Doctors of Empire
With Doctors of Empire, Kim has finally done what scholars specialising in modern Japanese medicine wished to do for years. By tracing the activities of nearly 1,200 Japanese medical students in the Meiji period (1868–1912) who flocked to German universities to learn cutting-edge medicine, and of the dozen German doctors appointed by the Japanese government to build the medical infrastructure in the country, Kim has tactfully demonstrated how Jap…
Integrating Parasite Eradication with Family Planning
This article depicts how anti-parasite and family planning campaigns developed in Japan and Korea independently after the Second World War, as specifically domestic public health initiatives that directly contributed to the post-war reconstruction (Japan) and nation-building (South Korea) exercises, and examines how they were later incorporated into development aid projects from the 1960s. By juxtaposing domestic histories of Japan as a former co…
Le développement historique du discours sur la qualité de la population au Japon
Afin d’analyser les mesures politiques d’amélioration de la qualité de la population dans l’après-guerre au Japon, le présent article contextualise les discours tenus autour de la « qualité de la population » (jinkō shishitsu 人口資質, plus largement jinkō no shitsu 人口の質) qui soutinrent les tentatives de l’État japonais dans sa gouvernance de la population depuis l’avant-guerre. D’un côté, la continuité historique du concept de qualité de la populati…
Critical approaches to reproduction and population in post-war Japan
This short essay introduces the special issue, ‘Critical approaches to reproduction and population in post-war Japan’. It first explains that the issue came out of the two-year project entitled ‘Historicizing the Discourses of Declining Fertility and Ageing Population in East Asia, in which we reappraised Japan’s post-war history by identifying the demographic, discursive, social, scientific, and political factors that shaped the post-war populat…
Birth control survey research, technical bureaucrats and the imagining of Japan’s population, 1945–60
This article explores a birth control survey conducted by the Japanese government between 1945–1960, and analyses how this research, both as scientific practice and knowledge, resonated with government efforts to manage the population during post-war reconstruction. Focusing on Shinozaki Nobuo, a Ministry of Health and Welfare ‘technical bureaucrat’ (gijutsu kanryō or gikan) specializing in population issues, this article depicts how human agency…
Science for Governing Japan's Population
Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world's most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan's Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been seen as problematic. What roles have population experts played in turning this demographic trend into a government concern? Aya Homei examines the med…
Decentring histories of science diplomacy
This special issue brings together a diverse set of cases from Asia with the aim of decentring established historical narratives about science diplomacy. With a critical perspective bringing together the bodies of literature in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) and critical Asian Studies, we argue that these cases foreground a geopolitical history with multiple forms of sovereignty – often contested ones – and a …
Concluding conversation
Gordon Barrett ( GB ): Research Associate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK (special issue co-editor)
Cold War Social Science
Gender in Science Diplomacy beyond Global North and South
Political science (21 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (13 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · History (10 obras) · History (8 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 obras)