Sick at Heart: Mental Illness in Modern Japan
This dissertation traces the evolution of ideas and experiences of mental illness (seishinbyō) in Japan around the turn of the twentieth century, showing how it changed from a diagnostic category of biomedical disease into a dynamic but stigmatized pathology of the self in which the mental and emoti...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8KS6QM8 |