A History of Medicine, Medical Care Studies and Historical Document

A Case Study of Hansenʼs Disease

Abstract

Historical materials about medicine and medical care include official historical documents and private documents. The official documents and private documents have different characteristics, as follows, and therefore exhibition situations also differ. Official documents include historical and legal documents of the administration of a medical facility, such as the former and public hospital, the sanatorium. Personal documents include personal information, such as personal test results and experimental data. The historical materials that I used when I studied the Hansenʼs Disease policy shaped this reportʼs attention to the directionality of the history of medicine, medical care studies and the relation of historical documents.