Ayako Suzuki
Biographic Data
| ID | 643375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayako Suzuki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayako |
| FAMILY NAME | Suzuki |
| SIGNATURE | SUZUKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5142-3180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Association between Short Stature at Grade 1 and Permanent Teeth Caries at Grade 6 in Elementary School Children in Japan
Short stature in children is a marker of low nutritional status and has been suggested to be associated with dental caries. However, longitudinal studies on this topic are scarce. Data from a longitudinal study of elementary school children in Adachi City, Tokyo, Japan, were analyzed. In 2015, caregivers of children at grade 1 answered questionnaires, and information on dental caries and height measured at school health checkups was merged and fo…
Madness in the Family
Alexander Williamson
Blind in Early Modern Japan
Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo, c . 1920–45
This paper explores domestic dynamics in the complex making of institutional psychiatry in Japan in c. 1920–45. It mainly examines gender issues between the relatively long-lasting system of the family care of mentally ill members and the use of freshly introduced systems of psychiatric hospitals. I shall look at the record of Ohji Brain Hospital (1901–45) in Tokyo, which has several thousands of case histories mainly in Tokyo c. 1920–45. From th…
Introduction
In the past decades, there has been an increasing scholarly interest in understanding the development of psychiatry and mental health in non-Western worlds in the modern period. Several collective efforts have been made on the East Asian part, and this special issue has selected the examples of the countries of China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Articles have utilized social and political constructions of psychiatric discourse, as well as…
Japanese imperial psychiatry in Tokyo
During the first half of the twentieth century, Western psychiatry was quickly absorbed in Japan, particularly the versions from Germany and Austria. By 1940, over 130 psychiatric hospitals were caring for approximately thirty thousand patients in cities, while in rural areas about sixty thousand people still depended on family members for care. Japan's empire expanded during this same period, and many immigrants came to the country. Growth in im…
Kingdom of the Sick
Covid-19-Associated Mortality in US Veterans with and without Sars-CoV-2 Infection
Age, BMI, smoking, and alcohol use disorder affect 30-day mortality in SARS-CoV-2-infected subjects differently from uninfected referents. Advanced age and overweight/obesity were associated with increased mortality risk among infected men, while current smoking and alcohol use disorder were associated with lower mortality risk among infected men, when compared with those uninfected
The Interaction of Vitamin D and Corticosteroids
This data-based cohort consisted of 26,508 (7%) United States veterans out of the 399,290 who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 from 1 March to 10 September 2020. We aimed to assess the interaction of post-index vitamin D (Vit D) and corticosteroid (CRT) use on 30-day mortality among hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Combination Vit D and CRT drug use was assessed according to four multinomial pairs…
Sex and gender
The Life, Restoration, and Faking of the Bust of Nagayo Matarō
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 13, Number 1, March 2019
Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950
From the 1920s and 1930s, discussion of asymptomatic carriers started to appear in Japan and quickly became well established. Two important frameworks here were public health and laboratory experiment. Japanese public health policies existed in theory, isolating asymptomatic carriers within their own family to prevent infection of others. These theoretical policies did not, however, attract great attention either from doctors, carriers, or family…
Life, Science, and Power in History and Philosophy
Osamu Kanamori (1954–2016) was a prolific author of science and technology studies in Japan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He represented many new directions, which he originally learned from France, the United States, and Japan. He influenced histories of scientific ideas and STS in Japan and East Asia. Around the same period, a new history of medicine in modern Japan started to take off. Many historical studies of moder…
Interaction Among Influenza Viruses A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B in Japan
Seasonal influenza epidemics occur each winter season in temperate zones, involving up to 650,000 deaths each year globally. A published study demonstrated that the circulation of one influenza virus type during early influenza season in the United States interferes with the activity of other influenza virus types. However, this finding has yet to be validated in other settings. In the present work, we investigated the interaction among seasonal …
Young Japanese men’s transnational mobility
In postwar Japan, the term salaryman, denoting middle-class male employees, has come to be conceptualized as the Japanese masculine norm, and represents men’s authoritative and static agency performed through their roles in the household and the nation-state. Given generational shifts in the middle-class life orientation of Japanese men from being centered on work stability and the responsibilities of work and family to a more self-oriented appro…
ANDREW Edmund Goble. Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan
Andrew Edmund Goble's book is the first English-language monograph on the history of medicine in medieval Japan. As a pioneering work, it begins the project remarkably well. Central to this attractive book is the idea of the transfer of knowledge. Indeed, medicine in medieval Japan is one of the ideal sites to examine the themes of the transfer of knowledge and material culture among China, the Islamic world, and Europe. Goble subjects the moveme…
Catharine Coleborne, Madness in the Family
An Australian historian, Catharine Coleborne, has produced a fine social history of madness in Victorian and Edwardian Australia and New Zealand. Her book is based on the subtle analysis of 215 patients from four psychiatric hospitals in Australasia: Gladesville Hospital (Sydney), the Yarra Bend Hospital (Melbourne), Goodna Hospital (Queensland) and the Whau or Auckland Mental Hospital (New Zealand). Coleborne's work examines a type of ‘colonial …
Mental Disease and Japanese Modernity
Measles and the spatio-temporal structure of modern Japan1
This article explores the spatio-temporal structure of infectious diseases in modern Japan, using measles mortality data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three aspects of the epidemiology of measles are discussed: the synchronization of epidemic waves, seasonality, and age at infection. These epidemiological analyses are connected to, respectively, regional integration, governmental policy on primary school education, and t…
Melancholy and Material Unity of Man, 17th-18th Centuries (review)
Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe
Reviewed by: Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon Akihito Suzuki David Lederer. Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 361 pp. Ill. $90.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-85347-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-521- 85347-7). The relationship between religion and mental health care in the early modern period has been o…
The Japanese Version of the Coping Orientation to Problems Expereinced
To investigate the internal consistency reliability and three types of validity of the Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (COPE), a survey was conducted among 209 English schoolteachers in Japan. The Japanese version of the COPE Inventory was developed through a back-translation process. Cronbach coefficients alpha for the Japanese version were above .70 for all subscales except five, including Acceptance and Restraint, so internal consis…
Illness Experience and Therapeutic Choice
This article presents a history of medicine from the patient's viewpoint. Using archival materials from the Takinogawa Health Survey, conducted in Tokyo in 1938, the article examines differences in self-reported morbidity according to patients' ages and genders. It also examines differences in their choices of treatment according to income. The article proposes to understand these differences with reference to sociocultural, biological, and econo…
Psychological Subjects
Demarcating the subject area of the history of psychology is notoriously difficult. Writing the early intellectual history of psychology poses a most fundamental question: what is the history of psychology about? Do historians of psychology have to include such topics as religious doctrines about soul, demonology or logic (which was about how to use one's own mind)? Although Roger Smith, Fernando Vidal and others have tackled the question, no cle…
Psychological Subjects
Demarcating the subject area of the history of psychology is notoriously difficult. Writing the early intellectual history of psychology poses a most fundamental question: what is the history of psychology about? Do historians of psychology have to include such topics as religious doctrines about soul, demonology or logic (which was about how to use one's own mind)? Although Roger Smith, Fernando Vidal and others have tackled the question, no cle…
Japanese imperial psychiatry in Tokyo
During the first half of the twentieth century, Western psychiatry was quickly absorbed in Japan, particularly the versions from Germany and Austria. By 1940, over 130 psychiatric hospitals were caring for approximately thirty thousand patients in cities, while in rural areas about sixty thousand people still depended on family members for care. Japan's empire expanded during this same period, and many immigrants came to the country. Growth in im…
Measles and the spatio-temporal structure of modern Japan1
This article explores the spatio-temporal structure of infectious diseases in modern Japan, using measles mortality data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three aspects of the epidemiology of measles are discussed: the synchronization of epidemic waves, seasonality, and age at infection. These epidemiological analyses are connected to, respectively, regional integration, governmental policy on primary school education, and t…
The Disease of the Self
Susan Sontag's now-classic Illness as Metaphor presents a compelling analysis of the paradoxical nature of the disease that was variously called consumption, phthisis pulmonalis, and, later, tuberculosis. Comparing the disease with cancer, she noted a stark contrast in the metaphors generated by the two fatal diseases of modern times: while cancer stood for negative values, consumption served as a metaphor of essentially positive attributes, such…
Dualism and the Transformation of Psychiatric Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Au XVII e siecle, la problematique de l'esprit est peu consideree dans le langage medical des psychiatres. Au XVIII e siecle, des travaux medico-philosophiques montrent l'importance de l'esprit dans la description des symptomes et de la therapeutique de la folie, et aboutissent a la naissance d'un nouveau concept du langage qui demontre le dualisme et la relation du corps et de l'esprit
Lunacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Lunacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Dualism and the Transformation of Psychiatric Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Au XVII e siecle, la problematique de l'esprit est peu consideree dans le langage medical des psychiatres. Au XVIII e siecle, des travaux medico-philosophiques montrent l'importance de l'esprit dans la description des symptomes et de la therapeutique de la folie, et aboutissent a la naissance d'un nouveau concept du langage qui demontre le dualisme et la relation du corps et de l'esprit
The Disease of the Self
Susan Sontag's now-classic Illness as Metaphor presents a compelling analysis of the paradoxical nature of the disease that was variously called consumption, phthisis pulmonalis, and, later, tuberculosis. Comparing the disease with cancer, she noted a stark contrast in the metaphors generated by the two fatal diseases of modern times: while cancer stood for negative values, consumption served as a metaphor of essentially positive attributes, such…
Preference for high-fat food in mice
A Brain Hospital in Tokyo and its Private and Public Patients, 1926-45
This paper examines patients' demography at Ohji Brain Hospital, a prosperous private psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, from 1926 to 1945. Increase and decrease in the number of resident patients, new admissions and deaths are discussed, based on a database compiled from the patients' admission register. Particular attention is paid to the length of stay. The changing pattern of the distribution of the length of stay is examined in the light of new …
My own private England – the madness of James Tilly Matthews and of his times
International audience
The Dr Ikkaku Ochi Collection
Akimitsu Naruyama (ed.), The Dr Ikkaku Ochi Collection: Medical Photographs from Japan around 1900 , Zurich: Scalo, 2004. Pp. 216. $39.95. ISBN 3–908247–71–3. The history of visual representation in Japanese medicine has attracted considerable scholarly and popular attention in the last couple of decades. Zuroku Nihon Iji Bunka Shiryō Shūsei (‘A Sourcebook of Illustrations from Historical Materials Related to Japanese Medical Culture’), a monumen…
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Psychological Subjects
Demarcating the subject area of the history of psychology is notoriously difficult. Writing the early intellectual history of psychology poses a most fundamental question: what is the history of psychology about? Do historians of psychology have to include such topics as religious doctrines about soul, demonology or logic (which was about how to use one's own mind)? Although Roger Smith, Fernando Vidal and others have tackled the question, no cle…
Melancholy and Material Unity of Man, 17th-18th Centuries (review)
Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe
Reviewed by: Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon Akihito Suzuki David Lederer. Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 361 pp. Ill. $90.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-85347-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-521- 85347-7). The relationship between religion and mental health care in the early modern period has been o…
The Japanese Version of the Coping Orientation to Problems Expereinced
To investigate the internal consistency reliability and three types of validity of the Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (COPE), a survey was conducted among 209 English schoolteachers in Japan. The Japanese version of the COPE Inventory was developed through a back-translation process. Cronbach coefficients alpha for the Japanese version were above .70 for all subscales except five, including Acceptance and Restraint, so internal consis…
Illness Experience and Therapeutic Choice
This article presents a history of medicine from the patient's viewpoint. Using archival materials from the Takinogawa Health Survey, conducted in Tokyo in 1938, the article examines differences in self-reported morbidity according to patients' ages and genders. It also examines differences in their choices of treatment according to income. The article proposes to understand these differences with reference to sociocultural, biological, and econo…
Measles and the spatio-temporal structure of modern Japan1
This article explores the spatio-temporal structure of infectious diseases in modern Japan, using measles mortality data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three aspects of the epidemiology of measles are discussed: the synchronization of epidemic waves, seasonality, and age at infection. These epidemiological analyses are connected to, respectively, regional integration, governmental policy on primary school education, and t…
Mental Disease and Japanese Modernity
Catharine Coleborne, Madness in the Family
An Australian historian, Catharine Coleborne, has produced a fine social history of madness in Victorian and Edwardian Australia and New Zealand. Her book is based on the subtle analysis of 215 patients from four psychiatric hospitals in Australasia: Gladesville Hospital (Sydney), the Yarra Bend Hospital (Melbourne), Goodna Hospital (Queensland) and the Whau or Auckland Mental Hospital (New Zealand). Coleborne's work examines a type of ‘colonial …
ANDREW Edmund Goble. Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan
Andrew Edmund Goble's book is the first English-language monograph on the history of medicine in medieval Japan. As a pioneering work, it begins the project remarkably well. Central to this attractive book is the idea of the transfer of knowledge. Indeed, medicine in medieval Japan is one of the ideal sites to examine the themes of the transfer of knowledge and material culture among China, the Islamic world, and Europe. Goble subjects the moveme…
Young Japanese men’s transnational mobility
In postwar Japan, the term salaryman, denoting middle-class male employees, has come to be conceptualized as the Japanese masculine norm, and represents men’s authoritative and static agency performed through their roles in the household and the nation-state. Given generational shifts in the middle-class life orientation of Japanese men from being centered on work stability and the responsibilities of work and family to a more self-oriented appro…
The Life, Restoration, and Faking of the Bust of Nagayo Matarō
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal - Volume 13, Number 1, March 2019
Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950
From the 1920s and 1930s, discussion of asymptomatic carriers started to appear in Japan and quickly became well established. Two important frameworks here were public health and laboratory experiment. Japanese public health policies existed in theory, isolating asymptomatic carriers within their own family to prevent infection of others. These theoretical policies did not, however, attract great attention either from doctors, carriers, or family…
Life, Science, and Power in History and Philosophy
Osamu Kanamori (1954–2016) was a prolific author of science and technology studies in Japan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He represented many new directions, which he originally learned from France, the United States, and Japan. He influenced histories of scientific ideas and STS in Japan and East Asia. Around the same period, a new history of medicine in modern Japan started to take off. Many historical studies of moder…
Interaction Among Influenza Viruses A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B in Japan
Seasonal influenza epidemics occur each winter season in temperate zones, involving up to 650,000 deaths each year globally. A published study demonstrated that the circulation of one influenza virus type during early influenza season in the United States interferes with the activity of other influenza virus types. However, this finding has yet to be validated in other settings. In the present work, we investigated the interaction among seasonal …
Sex and gender
Kingdom of the Sick
Medicine (16 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (14 works) · History (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (10 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Art history (6 works) · History (6 works)