Socio-historical study of leper

2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 14510356
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese history
• Research Institution: Shiga University
• Principal Investigator: ABE Yasunari Shiga University, Faculty of Economy, 経済学部, 助教授 (10272775)
• Project Period (FY): 2002 – 2004
• Keywords: leper / segregation / social history

Research Abstract

It is 10 facilities of the national sanatorium which concerns the investigation and Hansen's disease of the historical records.
As for the problem of this research, it heard <the voice> of the Hansen's disease person and the Hansen's disease persons lay in making what main constituent they became through the life in the sanatorium and how the thing concerned a state clear.
The difficulty of hearing the natural voice of the medical treatment location yard person in this investigation and the enormousness of the literature magazine and the literature work and the student government organization magazine which is kept in the sanatorium became clear.
The following became clear with the hearing from the Hansen's disease person. The life in the sanatorium for the Hansen's disease person is to develop as the question, many pieces of "why" such as what meaning there is in the life in being how place with the sanatorium where there is it about its being what or this place. To make the question of this Hansen's disease person clear, the literature magazine and the literature work with the enormous quantity which is kept in the sanatorium become the key.
Also, it is proved that the sanatorium was the inside of the society from the diary which is written down to the student government magazine and so on and so on, and are proved not to have been made isolated facilities at all by it and it was proved that there was outside various alternating current concerning the consolation concerning the contribution in the yard.