The Japanese Journal of Health and Medical Sociology
Online ISSN : 2189-8642
Print ISSN : 1343-0203
ISSN-L : 1343-0203
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Volume 24, Issue 2
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Presidential Address
  • Discussion on ‘Disability’ and ‘Support’
    Atsushi OZAWA
    2014 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 1-4
    Published: January 31, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: March 25, 2016
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18918/jshms.24.2_1
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    Important points of view on ‘disability’ and ‘support’ are eligibility of supplying social services and criteria for judgment on needs of social services for persons with disabilities. In addition to these points, it is also important that who judges needs of social services for persons with disabilities. First of all, we explain the definition of disability in the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. Next, we discuss criteria and stakeholders of judgment on needs of social services for persons with disabilities.
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Educational Lecture
  • Discussing the Legislative Definition of Disability and Disability Policy
    Hisao SATO
    2014 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 5-12
    Published: January 31, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: March 25, 2016
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18918/jshms.24.2_5
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    Official identification of a person with a disability and the degree of his/her impairment have been made by medical doctors in Japan. And according to the degree of the impairment the provision of social welfare services has been made. However the correlation between the levels of impairment and participation restriction has been weakened owing to the development of rehabilitation services and normalization policies. Therefore the government has tried to improve the eligibility scheme by introducing the new Disability Degree System, but this change still falls under the medical model and the problem of eligibility is growing more serious. A new eligibility policy for individual needs assessment needs to be developed which respects social work professionals and pays more attention to the voice of service users with disabilities.
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Symposium
Original Article
  • The Present of Social Relationships between Hansen's Disease Sufferers and the Others: National Sanatorium Oshimaseishoen and Setouchi International Art Festival 2010
    Yusuke KOSAKA
    2014 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 27-37
    Published: January 31, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: March 25, 2016
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18918/jshms.24.2_27
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    This paper shows one of perspectives to discuss the future of Hansen's Disease Sufferers and sanatoriums, researching several activities in National Sanatorium Oshimaseishoen through Setouchi International Art Festival 2010. In order to show them, I focus on what kinds of social relationships were formed between Hansen's Disease Sufferers and the Others. Especially, I refer to the mediators who formed new relationships from inside and outside Oshimaseishoen through the activities in the international art festival. Finally, I demonstrate the possibility that the memories and records about Hansen's Disease Sufferers and sanatoriums are inherited by these mediators' activities.
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  • A Study on the Process of Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed by Patients' Family
    Yoshiyuki FUKUMOTO
    2014 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 38-47
    Published: January 31, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: March 25, 2016
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18918/jshms.24.2_38
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    Medical malpractice lawsuits are not actualized until the patient's side files the lawsuits. In order to understand the plaintiff's reasoning behind the filing of malpractice lawsuits, the plaintiff's interpretation of “the clinical course and the physician's act” was analyzed based on the interviews of 4 plaintiffs out of 3 groups. As a result, “double anger” was revealed in the presence of “unexpected results.” “Double anger” is the plaintiff's subjective anger directed toward the physician in the claim of (1) the physician's mistakes and (2) subsequent action to conceal the mistake by the physician. The plaintiff's “double anger” evolved into the plaintiff's “vindictive feelings” and motive for “seeking the truth” and “preventing similar tragedies.” Filing a medical malpractice lawsuit is solely the plaintiff's act but the reason of the filing lawsuits was based on “double anger” formed in the process of the joint actions (Blumer 1969=1991) of the physician and the patient side.
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Research Note
  • The Lay Man's Perspectives on ‘Health Food’: An Analysis of Qualitative Data from the Interviews with Seniors
    Tomoko FUKUSHIMA
    2014 Volume 24 Issue 2 Pages 48-58
    Published: January 31, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: March 25, 2016
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.18918/jshms.24.2_48
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    Although its definition is vague both legally and in the field of nutrition science, health foods are widely used in Japan. The purpose of this study is to examine lay perspectives on health food among seniors. The study explored how seniors conceptualized so-called ‘health food’, dietary supplements, functional foods and medications, and why they use them. From the semi-structured interviews, lay people are indifferent to the authorized evidence-based claims on food. The seniors use health food because they 1) believe it has a benefit to their mental or physical condition, 2) can afford it, 3) believe that its use helps them keep good relationships with their significant others, and 4) think it does no harm. Health foods are also used for reasons which are not health related.
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