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Medical treatment and discourse of menopausal disorders in the Edo period

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K03047
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Japanese history
Research InstitutionNara Women's University

Principal Investigator

Suzuki Noriko  奈良女子大学, 生活環境科学系, 教授 (20335475)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Keywords更年期障害 / 女医 / 産科 / 女性更年期障害 / 医療 / 更年期 / 江戸時代
Outline of Final Research Achievements

It was confirmed that neither medicine in Edo period nor Chinese medicine described knowledge or clinical cases for unfixed complaints of middle-aged women as women's specific diseases. In addition, as with medical textbooks, those written specifically for the general public, which are specifically discussed as women's diseases, only discuss menstrual irregularities in the category of "the way of blood."
On the other hand, it was found that there are many medicines for dealing with various unfixed complaints among women in the sales agent-related materials, and there is also a wide spread of publicity related to them. In other words, it was confirmed that although the unfixed complaints of middle-aged and elderly women were not specialized as medical subjects in the Edo period, they were one important market of the drug dealers as a target of self-medication with sales drugs.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

高齢化社会を迎える現代、更年期障害治療は医学の大きな課題の一つと社会的にもみなされてきている。これに関連したトピックが新聞や雑誌に頻繁に取り上げられるようになって、人文社会科学系も巻き込んで、様々な研究成果が発信されているが、前近代の日本史学からのアプローチはまだなされていなかった。
本研究は現代社会の状況の前提として、江戸時代の中高年女性の病と治療の実態を史料に即して明らかにすることを通じて、女性特有の病気である血の道という病の認識が、医学よりも売薬業の市場原理の中で拡散されていったことを指摘した。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2018 2017

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 「須佐之男命厄神退治之図」(葛飾北斎画)に描かれた病2018

    • Author(s)
      鈴木則子
    • Journal Title

      浮世絵芸術

      Volume: 175 Pages: 5-15

    • NAID

      130008023502

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report 2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 江戸時代後期における産科医療環境の変容とその特質2018

    • Author(s)
      鈴木則子
    • Journal Title

      歴史学フォーラム2017の記録「書物と学問から時代を超える」

      Volume: 0 Pages: 14-22

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Developments in Early Modern Balneotherapy in Japan and the Transformation of Hot-Spring Cures2017

    • Author(s)
      鈴木則子
    • Journal Title

      Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies

      Volume: 62 Pages: 83-84

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 「江戸時代の女医」2017

    • Author(s)
      鈴木則子
    • Journal Title

      洋学史通信

      Volume: 29 Pages: 5-6

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 近世後期産科医療の展開と女性~賀川流産科をめぐって2017

    • Author(s)
      鈴木則子
    • Journal Title

      アジアジェンダー文化学研究

      Volume: 創刊号 Pages: 5-17

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 江戸時代における大坂の女医2018

    • Author(s)
      鈴木則子
    • Organizer
      第119回日本医史学会総会・学術大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 日本近世温泉医学の展開と湯治の変容2017

    • Author(s)
      鈴木則子
    • Organizer
      第62回国際東方学者会議
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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