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School of Education and Welfare :
Department of Welfare Science

HASHIMOTO Akira
Position Professor
Degrees Doctor of Health Sciences
Last academic career Doctor course, Course of Health Sciences, Division of Medical Sciences Graduate School, The University of Tokyo
Areas of study History of Psychiatry
Themes of research
  1. 19th and 20th century psychiatry in Europe and Asia
  2. Mental health and welfare policy in modern Japan
  3. Preservation and use of the historical data of psychiatry
Research achievement
  1. Psychiatry and religion in modern Japan: traditional temple and shrine therapies. In Christopher Harding et al. (eds.): Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan. 51-75, Routledge, London and New York, 2014.
  2. A 'German world' shared among doctors: a history of the relationship between Japanese and German psychiatry before World War II. History of Psychiatry 24(2): 180-195 (2013).
  3. Mental Patients and Home Custody. Rikka Press, Tokyo, 2011. (in Japanese)
  4. Alt-Scherbitz (Sachsen) und Matsuzawa (Tokio). Eine vergleichende Betrachtung zweier Anstaltsprojekte in Deutschland und Japan. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Geschichte der Nervenheilkunde 17: 177-192, 2011.
  5. Invention of a "Japanese Gheel": Psychiatric Family Care from a Historical and Transnational Perspective. In Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Mueller (eds.): Transnational Psychiatries: Social and Cultural Histories of Psychiatry in Comparative Perspective c. 1800-2000. 142-171, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010.
Academic associations
  1. The Japanese Society for the History of Psychiatry
  2. Japanese Society of Social Psychiatry
  3. Japan Society of Medical History
  4. Japanese Society of Public Health
  5. Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare
Academic /social activities
  1. 日本精神医学史学会監事
  2. 社会福祉法人芳龍福祉会評議員
Mail Address aha[at]ews.aichi-pu.ac.jp
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Original Website http://kenkyukaiblog.jugem.jp/

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