Glossaries
Glossaries
- BOGEN-BYŌ - , child illness induced by deficiency of mother’s social responsibility, a pseudo-disease invented by a Japanese medical doctor.
- BURAKU - local hamlet in Japanese.
- DAIDOKORO-SHŌKŌGUN - house wife “kitchen” syndrome, a pseudo-disease invented by a Japanese medical doctor.
- GATTSUKAI - authorized academic society or association.
- HIHANTEKI-IRYŌ - critical medicine.
- JISSEN NO IRYŌ JINRUIGAKU - "Medical anthropology of practice": The author's book on Medical Anthropology of Health Practice in Rural Honduras, an ethnography published in 2001.
- KENKYU-KAI - voluntary research group.
- KIKAN-JINRUIGAKU - Anthropology Quarterly, a Japanese Journal of Anthropology published Kyoto Association of Anthropology, Kyoto University, 1969-1989.
- KŌSEISHO - Ministry of Health,1938-2001, now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2001- .
- KŌSEI-RŌDŌSHŌ - Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2001- .
- MAOists, M-A-O - acronym of the Medical Anthropologists group in Osaka.
- NICHIBEI-AMPO, NICHIBEI ANZEN HOSHO JYŌYAKU - the US-Japan military alliance, “the governmental Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan.”
- RANGAKU-KOTOHAJIME - "Beginning of Duch Scholarship,"(1815) The book name of SUGITA Genpaku, 1733-1817, Medical doctor of the Edo period.
- RYŌSAI-KENBO NO TEIKŌ - Resisting against becoming good wife and wise mother.A title of the Margaret Lock's paper.
- SEIBUTSU-IGAKU - biomedicine.
- SEINEN-KAGAKUSHIKA-SHŪDAN - Young Group of Historians of Science.
- SHIZEN-KAGAKU - natural sciences.
- SHUGEN-DŌ - a syncretic Japanese Mountain Religion influenced by the esoteric-tantric Buddism, MITTKYŌ.
- TATE-SHAKAI - vertical society. A typical character of Japanese society, by Chie NAKANE, 1970.
- YU-NYŪ GAKUMON - “imported scholarship”of western academics to Japan.
