Amy Borovoy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 630559 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amy Borovoy |
| PRENOMES | Amy |
| SOBRENOME | Borovoy |
| ASSINATURA | BOROVOY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8042-7298 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
All in the family
This article examines the ethical and cultural logics shaping living donor kidney transplantation in Japan, where donation is restricted to kin and deceased donation remains rare. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Tokyo‐area hospital, it analyzes how Japan's kin‐based transplantation regime contrasts with the utilitarian model dominant in the United States, where donor pools are expanded through non‐kin and anonymous exchange. I argue that J…
Care Beyond the Clinic
Care for kidney failure in the context of rapid aging taxes society, the state, and the individual patient. Kidney dialysis is the predominant form of care for end-stage renal disease in Japan. In this article I explore how dialysis proficiency and dominance in Japan is made possible by a culture of "high touch" and paternalistic medicine, patient endurance, medicalization, socialization, and gendered care. This culture of management is both gene…
Plan 75
In December 2023, the authors screened the film Plan 75, a dystopic meditation on Japan's future as an aging society, with a public audience at Princeton University. The essay offers reflections on the experience of watching the film, the nature of Hayakawa Chie's social commentary and the visual way in which she realizes it, and the present social context for the film's futuristic meditation. The film won the Caméra d'Or Special Mention Prize at…
The Burdens of Self-Restraint
The essay explores Japan's policies of containing infection without heavy reliance on legally imposed lockdowns or digital surveillance. It examines the 'social measures' that local governments and the Ministry of Health relied on, including consistent public health messaging, contact tracing, education, with a focus on behavior modification. The pandemic worldwide has highlighted the importance of society in addition to the state in controlling …
The Too-Good Wife
Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebrat…
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan by Francesca Di Marco
Reviewed by: Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan by Francesca Di Marco Amy Borovoy Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan. By Francesca Di Marco. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. 198 pages. Hardcover, £115.00/$165.00; softcover, £36.99/$49.95. Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan comes across as a comprehensive review of a deeply flawed literature. Author Francesca Di Marco herself notes early on that “the work produced on suicide in Japan is essentiall…
Between Biopolitical Governance and Care
Video abstractRead the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo In both Japan and China, health has historically been entwined with notions of morality and broader social ideals. In part, this is because
Japan's Public Health Paradigm
In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and chronic illness. Foucault's cautionary observations regarding the infiltration of normative social values into the terrain of healing offer a productive framework for considering the politics of public health in the industrialized world. I explore Japan's public health paradigm and its key fea…
Robert Bellah's Search for Community and Ethical Modernity in Japan Studies
This article explores Robert Bellah's engagement with Japan in formulating his communitarian critique of American individualism. Bellah's early contribution to post-World War II modernization studies,Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan, embraced the Weberian framework of social development, but it also described a system that departed from Weber's narrative of liberalization and rationalization in important ways. Bellah argued t…
Japanese and American public health approaches to preventing population weight gain
Precarious Japan. AnneAllison. Durham, NC
Doi Takeo and the Rehabilitation of Particularism in Postwar Japan
This essay explores the persuasive power of Takeo Doi’s idea of amae. Doi’s description of Japanese cultural psychology as rooted in sensitivity, innocence, and passivity allowed him to provide a comfortable return to the values of familiality, paternalism, and beneficent authority, in a way that could be embraceable in the context of postwar democracy. The essay situates Doi’s ideas in the context of postwar liberalism and explores his engagemen…
Health Inequalities in Japan
Reviewed by: Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of Older People Amy Borovoy (bio) Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of Older People. Edited by Katsunori Kondo. Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne, 2010. xxxii, 291 pages. $109.95. Japan is no longer seen as one of the world’s exceptions. Once it was an industrial society notable for steady economic growth, great achievements in health, low levels of inequality, and a highly…
Decentering agency in feminist theory
Can't Go Native
DVD Review
Vicarious Language
Japan’s Hidden Youths
Managing the Unmanageable
In this article, we examine the apparent resistance of elderly Russian Jewish émigrés to the dominant U.S. biomedical model of diabetes treatment. Cultural competence on the part of medical professionals who make assumptions about Russian culture tends to be based on particularly American values of self-control and individual agency. The American consumer model of health care incorporating risk, individual responsibility, autonomy, and choice, wh…
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers . Emiko Ohnuki‐Tierney
The Rise of Eating Disorders in Japan
No One Home
No One Home
No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan. Daniel Touro Linger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 342 pp
Women on the Verge
Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. Karen Kelsky. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. ix. 294 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Imagined Families, Lived Families
Managing the Unmanageable
In this article, we examine the apparent resistance of elderly Russian Jewish émigrés to the dominant U.S. biomedical model of diabetes treatment. Cultural competence on the part of medical professionals who make assumptions about Russian culture tends to be based on particularly American values of self-control and individual agency. The American consumer model of health care incorporating risk, individual responsibility, autonomy, and choice, wh…
Between Biopolitical Governance and Care
Video abstractRead the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo In both Japan and China, health has historically been entwined with notions of morality and broader social ideals. In part, this is because
Japan's Public Health Paradigm
In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and chronic illness. Foucault's cautionary observations regarding the infiltration of normative social values into the terrain of healing offer a productive framework for considering the politics of public health in the industrialized world. I explore Japan's public health paradigm and its key fea…
Decentering agency in feminist theory
Japanese and American public health approaches to preventing population weight gain
Women on the Verge
Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. Karen Kelsky. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. ix. 294 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Recovering From Codependence in Japan
In this article, I explore the appropriation of the notion of "codependence" in Japan, as alcoholism increasingly becomes a subject of social concern. Codependence is pathologized in the 1980's American popular psychology, which regards accommodation to social relationships as a compromise of the self Yet, in Japan, the notion resonates with postwar national ideologies of the normal—that is, of Japanese society as held together through family‐lik…
Robert Bellah's Search for Community and Ethical Modernity in Japan Studies
This article explores Robert Bellah's engagement with Japan in formulating his communitarian critique of American individualism. Bellah's early contribution to post-World War II modernization studies,Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan, embraced the Weberian framework of social development, but it also described a system that departed from Weber's narrative of liberalization and rationalization in important ways. Bellah argued t…
The Burdens of Self-Restraint
The essay explores Japan's policies of containing infection without heavy reliance on legally imposed lockdowns or digital surveillance. It examines the 'social measures' that local governments and the Ministry of Health relied on, including consistent public health messaging, contact tracing, education, with a focus on behavior modification. The pandemic worldwide has highlighted the importance of society in addition to the state in controlling …
No One Home
No One Home
No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan. Daniel Touro Linger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 342 pp
Type A behaviour pattern, the recall of positive personality information and self‐evaluations
This paper reports on two studies of how Type A and B subjects perceive themselves. Both studies investigated differences in self‐ratings of personality by Type As and Bs, and differences in the recall of positive and negative personality information. As predicted, a modest significant positive correlation was found in both studies between Type A scores and number of positive traits remembered, suggesting that Type A behaviours are associated wit…
Type A behaviour pattern, the recall of positive personality information and self‐evaluations
This paper reports on two studies of how Type A and B subjects perceive themselves. Both studies investigated differences in self‐ratings of personality by Type As and Bs, and differences in the recall of positive and negative personality information. As predicted, a modest significant positive correlation was found in both studies between Type A scores and number of positive traits remembered, suggesting that Type A behaviours are associated wit…
Recovering From Codependence in Japan
In this article, I explore the appropriation of the notion of "codependence" in Japan, as alcoholism increasingly becomes a subject of social concern. Codependence is pathologized in the 1980's American popular psychology, which regards accommodation to social relationships as a compromise of the self Yet, in Japan, the notion resonates with postwar national ideologies of the normal—that is, of Japanese society as held together through family‐lik…
Women on the Verge
Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. Karen Kelsky. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. ix. 294 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
No One Home
No One Home
No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan. Daniel Touro Linger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 342 pp
The Rise of Eating Disorders in Japan
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers . Emiko Ohnuki‐Tierney
Japan’s Hidden Youths
Managing the Unmanageable
In this article, we examine the apparent resistance of elderly Russian Jewish émigrés to the dominant U.S. biomedical model of diabetes treatment. Cultural competence on the part of medical professionals who make assumptions about Russian culture tends to be based on particularly American values of self-control and individual agency. The American consumer model of health care incorporating risk, individual responsibility, autonomy, and choice, wh…
Vicarious Language
DVD Review
Doi Takeo and the Rehabilitation of Particularism in Postwar Japan
This essay explores the persuasive power of Takeo Doi’s idea of amae. Doi’s description of Japanese cultural psychology as rooted in sensitivity, innocence, and passivity allowed him to provide a comfortable return to the values of familiality, paternalism, and beneficent authority, in a way that could be embraceable in the context of postwar democracy. The essay situates Doi’s ideas in the context of postwar liberalism and explores his engagemen…
Health Inequalities in Japan
Reviewed by: Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of Older People Amy Borovoy (bio) Health Inequalities in Japan: An Empirical Study of Older People. Edited by Katsunori Kondo. Trans Pacific Press, Melbourne, 2010. xxxii, 291 pages. $109.95. Japan is no longer seen as one of the world’s exceptions. Once it was an industrial society notable for steady economic growth, great achievements in health, low levels of inequality, and a highly…
Decentering agency in feminist theory
Can't Go Native
Precarious Japan. AnneAllison. Durham, NC
Japanese and American public health approaches to preventing population weight gain
Robert Bellah's Search for Community and Ethical Modernity in Japan Studies
This article explores Robert Bellah's engagement with Japan in formulating his communitarian critique of American individualism. Bellah's early contribution to post-World War II modernization studies,Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan, embraced the Weberian framework of social development, but it also described a system that departed from Weber's narrative of liberalization and rationalization in important ways. Bellah argued t…
Between Biopolitical Governance and Care
Video abstractRead the transcriptWatch the video on Vimeo In both Japan and China, health has historically been entwined with notions of morality and broader social ideals. In part, this is because
Japan's Public Health Paradigm
In this essay, I revisit the politics of social control in the context of contemporary public health discussions, touching on the management of obesity and chronic illness. Foucault's cautionary observations regarding the infiltration of normative social values into the terrain of healing offer a productive framework for considering the politics of public health in the industrialized world. I explore Japan's public health paradigm and its key fea…
The Too-Good Wife
Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebrat…
Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan by Francesca Di Marco
Reviewed by: Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan by Francesca Di Marco Amy Borovoy Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan. By Francesca Di Marco. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. 198 pages. Hardcover, £115.00/$165.00; softcover, £36.99/$49.95. Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan comes across as a comprehensive review of a deeply flawed literature. Author Francesca Di Marco herself notes early on that “the work produced on suicide in Japan is essentiall…
The Burdens of Self-Restraint
The essay explores Japan's policies of containing infection without heavy reliance on legally imposed lockdowns or digital surveillance. It examines the 'social measures' that local governments and the Ministry of Health relied on, including consistent public health messaging, contact tracing, education, with a focus on behavior modification. The pandemic worldwide has highlighted the importance of society in addition to the state in controlling …
Imagined Families, Lived Families
Plan 75
In December 2023, the authors screened the film Plan 75, a dystopic meditation on Japan's future as an aging society, with a public audience at Princeton University. The essay offers reflections on the experience of watching the film, the nature of Hayakawa Chie's social commentary and the visual way in which she realizes it, and the present social context for the film's futuristic meditation. The film won the Caméra d'Or Special Mention Prize at…
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