Nanayama Jundō at Work: A Village Doctor and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Japan

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[Susan L. Burns is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003) and is currently completing a monograph on the formation of psychiatry in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Recent publications on the history of medicine in Japan include “Marketing Health and Beauty: Advertising, Medicine, and the Modern Body in MeijiTaisho Japan,” in Hans Thomsen and Jennifer Purtle (eds.), East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World War II (Chicago: Paragon Books, 2009), “Making Illness into Identity: Writing Leprosy Literature in Modern Japan,” Japan Review no. 16 (2004): 191-211, and “From ‘Leper Villages’ to Leprosaria: Public Health, Medicine, and the Culture of Exclusion in Modern Japan,” in Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange (eds.), Isolation: Polices and Practices of Exclusion (London: Routledge, 2003).]