Kitanaka, Junko
Faculty of Letters Human Sciences Professor
Graduate School of Human Relations Sociology Professor
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Research Overview
I am a medical anthropologist with interests encompassing the anthropology of science, biomedicine and psychiatry; depression and suicide; aging and dementia; and global health and preventive medicine. My book Depression in Japan (Princeton Univ. Press, 2012) examines the rise of depression and the emergence of psychiatry as a force of social transformation in Japan. My current project on dementia investigates the changing landscape of aging in the genomic age and the global psychiatrization of the life cycle.
Specialty
Medical Anthropology, History of Psychiatry, Cultural Psychiatry