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Curious about our East Asian Studies program? Arts & Science student Ben talks about why he chose the program and what to expect. Want more information? Head to www.artsci.utoronto.ca.

Curious about our East Asian Studies program? Arts & Science student Ben talks about why he chose the program and what to expect. Want more information? Head to www.artsci.utoronto.ca.

Curious about our East Asian Studies program? Arts & Science student Ben talks about why he chose the program and what to expect. Want more information? Head to www.artsci.utoronto.ca.

"The Travel of Anxieties: Rethinking the impact of Western medicine on Japanese conceptions of the body" Historians of early modern Japan have long cited the appearance of the Kaitai shinsho (1774), a translation of a European anatomical text, as a critical turning point in Japanese studies of Western languages and science. But the importance of this text in the broad history of cultural transfer has long distorted interpretations of Japanese medical history. It has greatly exaggerated, on the one hand, the impact of Western anatomy, and has completely hidden, on the other, a far deeper transformation. For Japanese medicine before the end of the nineteenth century, the most significant change inspired by the encounter with Europe lay not, in fact, in altered notions of bodily structure, but rather in new fears of vulnerability. Professor Kuriyama proposes, then, to sketch a radically different account of how conceptions of the body in Japan were affected by the West. But through this specific case study he hopes, too, to suggest how studies of global science may need to look beyond just the circulation of ideas and practices, and consider as well the travel of anxieties.

Introduction by Prof. Elizabeth Perry to the Harvard-Yenching Institute roundtable on “Asian Studies in Asia," held on March 22, 2017 at Harvard University