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¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to reveal the attitude concerning women as "reproductive bodies" and fetus in the early modern Japan. The case to be examined here is ; the child rearing ordinance enacted by the Sendai Domain. Points of my study are as follows.
1)In the Sendai domain, official fetal death certificates shed light on the connection between women in the agricultural labor force and infant mortality.
2)Based on the recent studies about life and body, I wish to reveal the attitude concerning women as "reproductive bodies" and fetus held by people who had lived in early modern of the Sendai Domain.
In summary, the following topics have been examined. The first topic is the historical meaning of childbirth regulations of the Sendai Domain. Under the laws, the pregnancies and childbirths of the people were strictly controlled. Such regulations reversely strengthened people's thought about birth control.
The second topic, interrelationships of the Domain.The communities, families and doctors that were involved with the pregnancy, childbirth, abortion and infanticide were becoming known. The third topic, through reading documents about miscarriages and abortions procedures which are written in the books and manuscripts, I can demonstrate people's will to the childbirth control.
The forth topic, along with the research of the records of diagnoses and distributed medicines that remain in the Sendai Domain, we can recognize that the doctor's records were great guides to bring new light of the people's thought on their body and life.
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