TY - JOUR
AU - Hashimoto, Akira
AB - Book Reviews 677 two-part biography Huxley: The Devil’s Disciple (1994) and Evolution’s High Priest (1997). Its comprehensive scope makes this book of interest not only to historians of science, but to scholars of other disciplines, such as political or social history. This ‘story of Huxley re-enchantment’ will, in turn, enchant even those readers who are unfamiliar with the history of evolutionary science (p. xxvii). https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkad059 Beth Mills Advance access publication 2 August 2023 University of Exeter Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii + 230. £29.99. Hdbk. ISBN 978-0- 1975-0735-3. One might expect that themes involving Japanese family, mental illness and women would tend to fall into certain stereotypes associated with exotism, Orientalism or Japonism. In this book, however, most of these ‘expectations’ are betrayed. It describes with great accuracy the history of psychiatry in modern Japan based on many Japanese- language sources. This history is written from the viewpoint of patients and their fami- lies, focusing on issues related to women’s domestic labour and caregiving, and women’s bodies and physiology, a significant improvement on what has previously been lacking in research by Japanese scholars. But the book is not only about the weakness and perse- verance of Japanese 
TI - H. Yumi Kim, Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan
JO - Social History of Medicine
DO - 10.1093/shm/hkad033
DA - 2023-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/h-yumi-kim-madness-in-the-family-women-care-and-illness-in-japan-oforcgnON5
SP - 677
EP - 678
VL - 37
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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