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Illness Experience and Therapeutic Choice

Evidence from Modern Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Akihito Suzuki
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Abstract

This article presents a history of medicine from the patient's viewpoint. Using archival materials from the Takinogawa Health Survey, conducted in Tokyo in 1938, the article examines differences in self-reported morbidity according to patients' ages and genders. It also examines differences in their choices of treatment according to income. The article proposes to understand these differences with reference to sociocultural, biological, and economic factors.

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Research Article
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Social Science History , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , winter 2008 , pp. 515 - 534
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2008 

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