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 80 - Dr. Ellen Nakamura (Auckland)
Episode 79 - Dr. Steven Ericson (Dartmouth)
Episode 78 - Dr. Taka Oshikiri (UWI-Mona)
Episode 77 - Dr. James Huffman (Wittenberg)
Episode 76 - Dr. Sayaka Chatani (NUS)
Episode 75 - Dr. Jonathan Reynolds (Columbia)
Episode 74 - Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu (UBC)
Episode 73 - Dr. Simon Partner (Duke)
Episode 72 - Dr. Ayako Yoshimura (Chicago)
Episode 71 - Dr. Michael Dylan Foster (UC Davis)
Episode 70 - Dr. Noriko Aso (UCSC)
Episode 69 - Dr. Kerim Yasar (USC)
Episode 68 - Dr. Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams)
Episode 67 - Dr. Brian McVeigh
Episode 66 - Dr. Merry White (Boston)
Episode 65 - Dr. Marco Tinello (Hōsei)
Episode 64 - Dr. Tze Loo (Richmond)
Episode 63 - Dr. Mark McNally (Hawaii)
Episode 62 - Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke)
Episode 61 - Dr. Kazuhiro Oharazeki (Setsunan)
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