Actuality and Thought of Practices in Leprosy Relief Service in Soichi Iwashita
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16530393
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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 |
Social welfare and social work studies
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| Research Institution | Aichi Konan College |
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Principal Investigator |
WAKURA Kazuhiro Aich Konan College, Social Welfare Dep., Asociate Professor, 社会福祉学科, 准教授 (10342122)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Keywords | Soichi Iwashita / Catholic / Leprosy Relief Service / Thought of Social Welfare / Hansen Disease / Leprosy / Catholicism / Emperor System / 間主観 / 権威 / 権威性 / 民衆性 / 皇恩 / 唯物史観 / アイデンティティ / 国民的・民族的アイデンティティ |
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| Research Abstract |
Soichi Iwashita (1889-1940) was a noted Japanese Catholic scholar who for almost ten years (from 1930-1940) was engaged in a leprosy relief service while he served as the sixth director (the first of Japanese descent) of Kohyama Fukusei Hospital. It was Iwashita's intension to focus attention on developing an intellect based on practicality of leprosy relief. Iwashita studied more desirable relations between lepers and regular society in a leprosarium as a microcosm of society which imitated life in a nation state.
This research will examine the views of Iwashita's outlook for patients-regular society relationships to shoe in depth example of leprosy relief history. The research begins by looking at the bias of stereotypical discrimination theory between the subjects and the objects of power in most conventional leprosy relief history theory model. Iwashita's research was aimed at approaching the real facts of leprosy, relief history by grasping the social relations between the subjects and the objects as perspective of social action.
Iwashita's thought of leprosy relief service was formed by building a thought system which depended on a outlook of universal relationships between human beings and the regular society. As a result he intended to inspect the reality of leper society about the utility of past perspective of a medieval philosophy that teacher von Hugel showed. Iwashita rebuilt a philosophy of human beings-social relationships from the viewpoint of a subject of patient in order to regenerate their identity which they had lost because they were lepers. His philosophy on the treatment of leprosy patients was supported by his outlooks on human beings and regular society whom he considered able to form their own identity as people by building an ethical relation with a nation state as for individuals.
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