Community Medicine in Edo Period; the Study of Nakashima doctor family in Oku County, Okayama Prefecture.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23501206
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology/History of science and technology
• Research Institution: Teikyo Heisei University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUMURA Noriaki 帝京平成大学, ヒューマンケア学部, 講師 (00422379)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MACHI Senjurou 二松学舎大学, 文学部, 教授 (40301733) ; KAJITANI Shinji 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 准教授 (50365920) ; SAKAI Shidu 順天堂大学, 医学部, 名誉教授 (00053033) ; SUZUKI Noriko 奈良女子大学, 生活環境学部, 教授 (20335475)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 地域医療 / 科学技術史 / 医学史 / 医史学 / 岡山藩 / 在村医

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The catalog of books, letters, diaries, medical treatment records and other manuscripts which are in the possession of Nakashima family, has been completed and published as "Nakashima-ke Zousho Mokuroku (the library catalog of Nakashima family)" (ISSN:2189-387X)
The decipherment and the analyses of them has revealed the detail of the medical activities and the interaction between Nakashima doctors and other doctors or local community. This study will become a book in 2015.

Free Research Field

医学史