From impurity to hygiene: The role of midwives in the modernisation of Japan

Steger, Brigitte

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“…The state assigned the role of purveyor of its health policy to midwives and public health nurses. As groups whose raison d’être included protecting people’s health on behalf of the state, these health care workers were in close proximity to the state and were expected to communicate government messages to the people 8. Despite the change in sociopolitical climate after the Second World War, the government continuously exercised power over citizens’ reproductive health, partly for the sake of stable demography.…”

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Midwife and Public Health Nurse Tatsuyo Amari and a State-Endorsed Birth Control Campaign in 1950s Japan

Homei

2016

Nursing History Review

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Mrs. Tatsuyo Amari, a qualified midwife and nurse, served Japan's state-endorsed birth control campaign as a "birth control field instructor" in rural Minamoto Village of Yamanashi Prefecture just west of Tokyo. Her work sheds light on the role of female health care workers in health and population governance in 1950s Japan. Amari not only facilitated the "top-down" transfer of the state-sanctioned idea of birth control and contraceptives, as did other birth control field instructors, but also enabled the "bottom-up" flow of knowledge about people's reproductive lives through her participation of in the policy-oriented birth control research called the "three model-village study." Contextualizing Amari's engagement with the study elucidates how the state relied on the established role of female health care workers as intermediaries between state and people. Finally, Amari's contribution to the scientific aspect of the campaign may motivate historians to recognize the politics around female health care workers' participation in the science of birth control.

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Midwife and Public Health Nurse Tatsuyo Amari and a State-Endorsed Birth Control Campaign in 1950s Japan

Homei

2016

Nursing History Review

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“…14 IINKAI, 1988. 15 STEGER, 1994. R R R R Regulamentação da profissão de par egulamentação da profissão de par egulamentação da profissão de par egulamentação da profissão de par egulamentação da profissão de parteira teira teira teira teira Nesse meio tempo, enquanto o parto obstétrico ganhava espaço, as parteiras adeptas do parto moderno começaram a acusar as kyû-sanba de adotar procedimentos antimodernos e perigosos. Enquanto liderava sua escola de parturição, Ogata lançou um jornal mensal, o Josan no Shiori (Guia do Parto) em 1896, dirigido principalmente para as parteiras da periferia e do meio rural, que não podiam freqüentar seu curso, com o objetivo de ensinar as últimas tendências no atendimento ao parto.…”

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Tempos modernos, novos partos e novas parteiras: o parto no Japão de 1868 aos Anos 1930

Homei

2002

Rev. Estud. Fem.

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TEMPOS MODERNOS, NOVOS PARTOS E NOVAS PARTEIRAS: O PARTO NO JAPÃO DE 1868 AOS ANOS 1930P P P P Par ar ar ar arto e atendimento ao par to e atendimento ao par to e atendimento ao par to e atendimento ao par to e atendimento ao parto no Japão antes da era moderna to no Japão antes da era moderna to no Japão antes da era moderna to no Japão antes da era moderna to no Japão antes da era moderna O fenômeno biológico do parto acontece em todo o planeta desde que os seres humanos começaram a habitá-lo, mas atualmente sabemos que as práticas do nascimento são cultural, histórica e geograficamente específicas.1 O parto no Japão antigo, por exemplo, era totalmente diferente dos procedimentos atuais, tecnologicamente sofisticados, do Primeiro Mundo.2 Para os antigos japoneses, o parto era um acontecimento perigoso, extraordinário, durante o qual a mulher e a criança flutuavam entre o mundo dos mortos e o dos vivos. Por isso uma mulher dava à luz em uma sala especial, que separava metaforicamente o parto dos

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Medical representations of the body in Japan: Gender, class, and discourse in the eighteenth century

Low

1996

Annals of Science

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This paper examines the introduction of European anatomy to Japan via translated medical texts in the eighteenth century. It argues how detailed illustrations of the body found in the texts presented a new discourse by which to objectify and control the body, and new metaphors and analogies by which to view society. Inspection of bodily parts through dissection and the reading of anatomical texts marked a transition to Western forms of science, to 'reliable' knowledge which was certified by the social status of the author. By looking at one important text, the Kaitai shinsho [A New Book of Anatomy] (1774), it will be shown that changes in representations of the body reflect the social construction of gender.

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From impurity to hygiene: The role of midwives in the modernisation of Japan

Cited by 5 publications

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Midwife and Public Health Nurse Tatsuyo Amari and a State-Endorsed Birth Control Campaign in 1950s Japan

Midwife and Public Health Nurse Tatsuyo Amari and a State-Endorsed Birth Control Campaign in 1950s Japan

Tempos modernos, novos partos e novas parteiras: o parto no Japão de 1868 aos Anos 1930

Medical representations of the body in Japan: Gender, class, and discourse in the eighteenth century

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