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Tsujiuchi Lab
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The lab studies recovery from disasters and people's health through the lens of medical anthropology.
AboutAbout the lab
Life and health in disaster-affected areas, seen through anthropology.
The Tsujiuchi Lab studies the relationship between recovery from disasters and people's health from the standpoint of medical anthropology.
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear accident, the lab has carried out large-scale surveys and interviews with people living as evacuees.
Drawing also on methods from psychosomatic medicine and public health, the lab examines how stress, trauma, and social connections affect health.
Professor Tsujiuchi serves as director of the Waseda University Institute for Disaster Recovery and Medical Anthropology, which aims to share its findings in Japan and abroad.
Key terms
- Medical anthropology
- A field that studies how the understanding of illness and medicine differs across cultures and societies
- Psychosomatic medicine
- A field of medicine that treats illness with attention to the connection between mental states and physical symptoms
- Trauma
- The lasting effects that the memory of a deeply shocking event leaves on the mind and body
ResearchResearch themes
The lab examines the health problems of people affected by disasters from an interdisciplinary perspective centered on medical anthropology, combined with behavioral medicine, public health, and community welfare studies. The institute's ultimate goal is to turn its survey results into policy recommendations to local governments and the national government.
*Illustrative imageThe Minds of People Who Evacuated After the Nuclear Accident
In the Fukushima nuclear accident, many people had to leave the places where they had long lived. The lab studies the psychological wounds (PTSD) of people forced to evacuate within Japan, and through dialogue with young people who were children at the time, considers the long-lasting effects and how to support them.
*Illustrative imageEnd-of-Life Care
The lab analyzes, through patients' narratives, what aromatherapy care using scents means to patients receiving palliative care at the end stage of cancer. It also investigates differences in care after death between the UK and Japan, and considers how end-of-life care should be provided.
*Illustrative imageRelationships Shaped by HIV Prevention Medication
What kinds of relationships do people who use medication to prevent HIV infection (PrEP) build with people living with HIV? Based on firsthand accounts from the people involved, the lab clarifies how preventive technology affects relationships between people.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTakuya Tsujiuchi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Temporary housing for nuclear disaster evacuees - Panoramio 59850097” Duff Figgy / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- The Minds of People Who Evacuated After the Nuclear Accident: “Iitate vs Fukushima evacuation zones large” User:Mayhew derivative work: derived from original work by User:Lincun / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- End-of-Life Care: “Aromatherapie” Alek866215 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Relationships Shaped by HIV Prevention Medication: “HIV Vaccine Awareness Ribbon - 2” NIAID / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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