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Treating Emotion-Related Disorders in Japanese Traditional Medicine: Language, Patients and Doctors
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This paper analyses how the conceptual and therapeutic formation of Japanese traditional medicine (Kampo) has been socially constructed through interactions with popular interpretations of illness. Taking the example of emotion-related disorders, this paper focuses on the changing meaning of constraint (utsu) in Kampo medicine. Utsu was once a name for one of the most frequently cited emotion-related disorders and pathological concerns during the Edo period. With the spread of Western medicine in the Meiji period, neurasthenia replaced utsu as the dominant emotion-related disorder in Japanese society. As a result, post-Meiji doctors developed other conceptual tools and strategies to respond to these new disease categories, innovations that continue to influence contemporary practitioners. I begin this history by focusing on Wada Tōkaku, a Japanese doctor of the Edo period who developed a unique theory and treatment strategy for utsu. Secondly, I examine. Yomuto Kyūshin and Mori Dōhaku, Kampo doctors of the early twentieth century, who privileged neurasthenia over utsu in their medical practice. The paper concludes with a discussion of the flexibility and complexity of Kampo medicine, how its theory and practices have been influenced by cross-cultural changes in medicine and society, while incorporating the popular experience of illness as well.
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- Authors
- Daidoji, K.
- Affiliations
- Keio University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Daidoji, Keiko
- Venue
- Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
- Published
- 2012-12-30
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 59-80
- ISSN
- 0165-005X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-076X
- PMC
- PMC3586063
- OpenAlex
- W2001314121
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 1.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Culture Medicine and Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (088246)
- University of Westminster
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Emotions Research
- Keywords
- Kampo medicine, neurasthenia, Edo period medicine, social construction of illness, history of medicine
- MeSH terms
- Culture, Depression, Humans, Japan, Language, Liver, Neurasthenia, Qi, Medicine, Kampo, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century
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