Susan L Burns
Biographic Data
| ID | 3867771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan L Burns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Burns |
| SIGNATURE | BURNS S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wei Yu Wayne Tan. Blind in Early Modern Japan
Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire
Journal Article Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. Get access Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 354. Cloth $54.95. Susan L Burns Susan L Burns University of Chicago, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
Maren A. Ehlers. Give and Take
Sexual Assault and the Evidential Body
This article explores the formation of what Christopher Hamlin has called a “forensic culture” in late nineteenth-century Japan, and its impact on the prosecution of crimes of sexual violence. Before the 1870s, acts of rape often went unpunished or were resolved through private monetary settlements between the victim and her family and the rapist. However, after the formation of the modern Japanese state in 1868, legal reform, an important aspect…
Mark Thomas McNally, Like No Other
On the first page of the prologue to his seminal 1988 work Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism, H.D. Harootunian addressed his decision to render the Japanese term k
Reinvented Places
This article explores the history of the care of the mentally ill at Iwakura, a site in northeast Kyoto in Japan where two large psychiatric hospitals now stand. Long a topic of research in Japan, Iwakura reflects a peculiar spatial arrangement common in Japan in which psychiatric hospitals came to be established near religious sites associated with care of the mentally ill in the pre-modern period. In the early twentieth century, Japan’s first g…
Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan
Reviewed by: Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies by Michael Wachutka Susan L. Burns (bio) Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies. By Michael Wachutka. Global Oriental, Leiden, 2013. 313 pages. €127.00. “What is ‘modern’ or Meiji-period kokugaku?” (p. xi). To explore this question,…
Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
"Collectively, the essays [in this volume] offer a new framework for the history of gender in modern Japan and revise our understanding of both law and gender in an era shaped by modernization, nation and empire-building, war, occupation, and decolonization"--Jacket, page [3]
The Civil War and American Art
Art historians have long pondered the question of why so few American artists celebrated the Civil War in the stirring and theatrical grand manner of the European history painting tradition. Compounding the puzzle is the fact that so many painters continued to produce landscapes and scenes of daily life just as they had in peacetime, as if the war were no more than a blip on their aesthetic radar. Photography, it seemed, was the sole medium capab…
Imagining Harmony
Reviewed by: Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism Susan L. Burns Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism by Peter Flueckiger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 291. $60.00. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Tokugawa intellectual history was the hot field of the moment as scholars such as Harry Harootunian, Tetsuo Najita, Her…
Rethinking “Leprosy Prevention
Since the 1990s, Japan’s leprosy prevention policy has been the object of investigation by historians, journalists, and activists. The 1931 law that required the lifetime segregation of all those diagnosed with the disease was not repealed until 1996. This essay seeks to explore the origins of modern leprosy policy by examining the early Meiji discourse on leprosy that predated the involvement of the Japanese government. It argues that entreprene…
Leprosy in China
Reviewed by: Leprosy in China: A History Susan Burns Angela Ki Che Leung. Leprosy in China: A History. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xi + 373 pp. Ill. $50.00, £35.50 (978-0-2311-2300-6). Since the 1990s leprosy has been the object of much research by historians of medicine and public health, an interest clearly related to renewed concern for the relationship betwee…
Marketing ‘Women’s Medicines
This essay examines the marketing of ‘women’s medicines’ as a means to understand the evolving relationship between commodity culture and medical culture from the nineteenth century to the present. It examines the print advertisements associated with two of the best-known medicinal products for women, Tsumura Corporation’s Jitsubosan and Kitani Company’s Chūjōtō, two herbal decoctions that claimed efficacy for a wide range of gender specific ills…
Training Health Care Professionals to Manage Overweight Adolescents
Context: The obesity epidemic threatens the present and future health of adolescents in the United States. Yet, health care providers lack specific training for pediatric obesity assessment and management. Purpose: This study examined the adherence of rural Georgia primary care practitioners to an overweight adolescent management protocol. The study also documented the prevalence of obesity‐associated physiological and behavioral risk factors amo…
Practical Pursuits
Reviewed by: Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan Susan L. Burns (bio) Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Ellen Gardner Nakamura. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2005. xvii, 236 pages. $40.00. In this clearly written and well-researched work, Ellen Gardner Nakamura sheds new light on important a…
Before the Nation
Before the Nation
Contemplating Places
Reinvented Places
This article explores the history of the care of the mentally ill at Iwakura, a site in northeast Kyoto in Japan where two large psychiatric hospitals now stand. Long a topic of research in Japan, Iwakura reflects a peculiar spatial arrangement common in Japan in which psychiatric hospitals came to be established near religious sites associated with care of the mentally ill in the pre-modern period. In the early twentieth century, Japan’s first g…
The Civil War and American Art
Art historians have long pondered the question of why so few American artists celebrated the Civil War in the stirring and theatrical grand manner of the European history painting tradition. Compounding the puzzle is the fact that so many painters continued to produce landscapes and scenes of daily life just as they had in peacetime, as if the war were no more than a blip on their aesthetic radar. Photography, it seemed, was the sole medium capab…
Contemplating Places
Before the Nation
Before the Nation
Practical Pursuits
Reviewed by: Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan Susan L. Burns (bio) Practical Pursuits: Takano Chōei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Ellen Gardner Nakamura. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2005. xvii, 236 pages. $40.00. In this clearly written and well-researched work, Ellen Gardner Nakamura sheds new light on important a…
Training Health Care Professionals to Manage Overweight Adolescents
Context: The obesity epidemic threatens the present and future health of adolescents in the United States. Yet, health care providers lack specific training for pediatric obesity assessment and management. Purpose: This study examined the adherence of rural Georgia primary care practitioners to an overweight adolescent management protocol. The study also documented the prevalence of obesity‐associated physiological and behavioral risk factors amo…
Marketing ‘Women’s Medicines
This essay examines the marketing of ‘women’s medicines’ as a means to understand the evolving relationship between commodity culture and medical culture from the nineteenth century to the present. It examines the print advertisements associated with two of the best-known medicinal products for women, Tsumura Corporation’s Jitsubosan and Kitani Company’s Chūjōtō, two herbal decoctions that claimed efficacy for a wide range of gender specific ills…
Leprosy in China
Reviewed by: Leprosy in China: A History Susan Burns Angela Ki Che Leung. Leprosy in China: A History. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xi + 373 pp. Ill. $50.00, £35.50 (978-0-2311-2300-6). Since the 1990s leprosy has been the object of much research by historians of medicine and public health, an interest clearly related to renewed concern for the relationship betwee…
Imagining Harmony
Reviewed by: Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism Susan L. Burns Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism by Peter Flueckiger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. x + 291. $60.00. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Tokugawa intellectual history was the hot field of the moment as scholars such as Harry Harootunian, Tetsuo Najita, Her…
Rethinking “Leprosy Prevention
Since the 1990s, Japan’s leprosy prevention policy has been the object of investigation by historians, journalists, and activists. The 1931 law that required the lifetime segregation of all those diagnosed with the disease was not repealed until 1996. This essay seeks to explore the origins of modern leprosy policy by examining the early Meiji discourse on leprosy that predated the involvement of the Japanese government. It argues that entreprene…
Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
"Collectively, the essays [in this volume] offer a new framework for the history of gender in modern Japan and revise our understanding of both law and gender in an era shaped by modernization, nation and empire-building, war, occupation, and decolonization"--Jacket, page [3]
The Civil War and American Art
Art historians have long pondered the question of why so few American artists celebrated the Civil War in the stirring and theatrical grand manner of the European history painting tradition. Compounding the puzzle is the fact that so many painters continued to produce landscapes and scenes of daily life just as they had in peacetime, as if the war were no more than a blip on their aesthetic radar. Photography, it seemed, was the sole medium capab…
Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan
Reviewed by: Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies by Michael Wachutka Susan L. Burns (bio) Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of “National Learning” and the Formation of Scholarly Societies. By Michael Wachutka. Global Oriental, Leiden, 2013. 313 pages. €127.00. “What is ‘modern’ or Meiji-period kokugaku?” (p. xi). To explore this question,…
Mark Thomas McNally, Like No Other
On the first page of the prologue to his seminal 1988 work Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism, H.D. Harootunian addressed his decision to render the Japanese term k
Reinvented Places
This article explores the history of the care of the mentally ill at Iwakura, a site in northeast Kyoto in Japan where two large psychiatric hospitals now stand. Long a topic of research in Japan, Iwakura reflects a peculiar spatial arrangement common in Japan in which psychiatric hospitals came to be established near religious sites associated with care of the mentally ill in the pre-modern period. In the early twentieth century, Japan’s first g…
Sexual Assault and the Evidential Body
This article explores the formation of what Christopher Hamlin has called a “forensic culture” in late nineteenth-century Japan, and its impact on the prosecution of crimes of sexual violence. Before the 1870s, acts of rape often went unpunished or were resolved through private monetary settlements between the victim and her family and the rapist. However, after the formation of the modern Japanese state in 1868, legal reform, an important aspect…
Maren A. Ehlers. Give and Take
Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire
Journal Article Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. Get access Timothy M. Yang. A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 354. Cloth $54.95. Susan L Burns Susan L Burns University of Chicago, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Vol…
Wei Yu Wayne Tan. Blind in Early Modern Japan
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