In this episode, Dr. Susan Burns positions the history of leprosy in Japan amidst changing conceptions of disease and medical practice in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods. We discuss premodern understandings of disease as karmic retribution, government responses to infectious disease, the geographical distribution of medical institutions, and geospatial stigmas associated with the afflicted. (Transcript here).
Episode 100 - Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto (Heidelberg)
Episode 99 - PREVIEW: On the Record with Dr. Noell Wilson
Episode 98 - Dr. Lionel Babicz (Sydney)
Episode 97 - Dr. Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins (Edinburgh)
Episode 96 - Dr. Jolyon Thomas (Penn)
Episode 95 - Dr. Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso)
Episode 94 - Dr. David Wittner (Utica)
Episode 93 - Dr. Rebecca Copeland (Washington Univ.)
Episode 92 - Dr. Jun Isomae (Nichibunken)
Episode 90 - Dr. Gavin Campbell (Dōshisha)
Episode 89 - Janice Nimura
Episode 88 - Dr. Colin Jaundrill (Providence)
Episode 87 - Dr. Deborah Shamoon (NUS)
Episode 86 - Dr. Mark Ravina (Emory)
Episode 85 - Dr. Shi Lin Loh (NUS)
Episode 84 - Dr. David Ambaras (NC State)
Episode 83 - Dr. Donna Brunero (NUS)
Episode 82 - Dr. Jordan Sand (Georgetown)
Episode 81 - Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia)
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