2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of the Social Awareness through the Tuberculosis Sanatorium Opposition Movement
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17530411
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Toyoko Gakuen Women's College |
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Principal Investigator |
AOKI Junichi Toyoko Gakuen Women's College, Department of Early Childhood Care Education, Associate Professor (10389869)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | tuberculosis / a sanatorium / an area / an opposition movement / social consciousness |
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| Research Abstract |
Many Public Tuberculosis Sanatoriums were instituted in nationwide early in the 20 century. Once construction plans of the TB sanatorium made public, the opposition movement started in many areas. The purpose of this research is to clarify the social awareness of the TB sanatorium opposition movement in 18 public sanatoriums through the following : existence or nonexistence of this movement, the characteristics, and the local environment. From the research the ovements existed in 14 sanatoriums out of 18 ones. Each movement had the slightly different reasons against it. Firstly, each movement was generally carried out by each community. This showed that there were the common interests among the local communities against the sanatoriums at that time, There were many reasons against it. Not only they feared the TB infection but also they were afraid of decreasing sales of agricultural and marine products and diminishing the number of tourists. Each reason was based on the social awareness of hates for TB. Secondly, the candidate areas for the sanatorium were influenced by the local environment, The initial reason to choose the area was not only appropriate for the patients. The important issue was easy to acquire land for the sanatorium, Therefore, the most sanatoriums were built in the areas where people had already disliked because there were an isolation hospital, a prison, a cemetery, a crematory, and a sanatorium in these areas. In general the sanatorium was disliked to be invited by the local communities. But there were some exceptional areas to lure it. They were the depopulated areas in the country side because of the expectation of the local development. As the result of this research, it was clarified that the local community not only detested tuberculosis itself but also there were the various social awareness among the local communities.
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