Medicine Time

A New Socio-Temporal Element in the Cities of Ōsaka and Kyoto in Late Sixteenth Century Japan

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ID21750320
AuthorsAndrew Edmund Goble (0009-0008-2937-6120, University of Oregon, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume24
Issue1
Pages4-36
Publication date2024-08-13
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueKronoScope (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1567-715X • E-ISSN: 1568-5241
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15685241-bja10015
OpenAlexW4401669348
LanguageEN
References cited7

The essay will explore new understandings of time in daily life coincident with the onset of urbanization and availability of medical treatment in urban areas in late sixteenth century Japan, focusing on the cities of Ōsaka and Kyoto. The primary source for the essay is a contemporary diary ( Tokitsune kyōki ) that provides a near-daily record of activity over a period of twenty years. The essay will explore such topics as: reporting of medical symptoms, keeping track of the progress of ailments, the keeping by patients of longer-term records of medicines and their use; times reported for physician – patient interactions, which shed light on activity time in daily life; references to, and speculation on the need to note, time of arrival and departure for trips or attendance at events; and the apparent new rhythms of time consciousness associated with regular medicinal ingestion as part of a long-term health maintenance regimen

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