Japanistic Development of Discussions on Life and Medicine

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K00278
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01080:Sociology of science, history of science and technology-related
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Science
• Principal Investigator: SHIN Chang-Geon 東京理科大学, 教養教育研究院葛飾キャンパス教養部, 教授 (50366431)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 医学史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A group of physiologists, clinical physicians, and Kampo medicine practitioners came together in the Society of Nippon-Igaku, founded in 1935. The ideas that became its centripetal force were as follows; “Gaku and Jutsu" ("basic and clinical") as a reciprocal movement, “the Zenki of life" as the commonality between physiology and Kampo medicine, and Nippon-Igaku as the unification of Western and Oriental medicine. The bases of physiologists who participated in the Japanist movement were Tokyo Imperial University and Tokyo Jikei University. They distanced themselves from both in the neurophysiological debate between Keio University and Kyoto Imperial University that began in 1923, and Tokyo Imperial University, Tokyo Jikei University, and Keijo Imperial University formed a "third-party" position that regarded "All or None Law" itself with suspicion.

Free Research Field

科学史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

一つ目の学術的意義は、日本医学運動成立の歴史的背景にある多線的合流を解明したことである。東京帝大を中心とする生理学者の生命論・思想的活動、臨床薬理学・治療学を研究する臨床医学者の医学論、そして漢方医学復興論以降の漢方医学者の医学論が接点を明らかにした。二つ目は、従来全く検討されてこなかった1923年以降に展開された神経生理学論争と日本主義的医学運動の関係を「悉無律」をめぐる議論という観点から明らかにしたことである。さらに、戦後の体力医学と日本医学運動の関係を人的側面から解明し、思想的側面から示唆している。