Medicine 360: Circumnavigating the World to Explore Healthcare Systems
Vikra Madireddy reflects on his medical training in rural Tennessee and the uncomfortable questions provoked when he encountered alternative systems of care.
Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Mental Disability
Yoshiko Okuyama explores the emerging genre of comics in Japan, tōjisha manga, and discusses how these comics illuminate and humanise the otherwise “faceless” people’s invisible tribulations caused by mental disability. Manga, or Japanese comics, is
Embodied Vulnerability: Securing Sleep at Japanese Tsunami Shelters
Brigitte Steger explores how an earthquake and tsunami disaster threatens sleep in many ways and what we can learn about sleep health by paying attention to extreme situations.
‘Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study’ reviewed by Dr Ana Manzano
‘Organ Donation in Japan’ by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka (Lexington Books, 2015) Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study broadens current debates on organ transplantation in Japan through personal narratives of transplant surgeons and coordinators,