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Medical anthropology, with its propensity to theoretise and problemise issues and refer endlessly to other work and concepts with which the reader will not be familiar, is for many outsiders almost as impenetrable as Japanese psychiatry. Putting the two together should be a recipe for disaster, but in Junko Kitanaka's hands, this book is instead a triumph, perhaps even a classic. --David Healy, Times Higher Education Depression in Japan sets a high methodological and analytic standard for pursuing answers to vital questions. --Kalman Applbaum, Anthropological Quarterly

Medical anthropology, with its propensity to theoretise and problemise issues and refer endlessly to other work and concepts with which the reader will not be familiar, is for many outsiders almost as impenetrable as Japanese psychiatry. Putting the two together should be a recipe for disaster, but in Junko Kitanaka's hands, this book is instead a triumph, perhaps even a classic. -- David Healy Times Higher Education Depression in Japan sets a high methodological and analytic standard for pursuing answers to vital questions. -- Kalman Applbaum Anthropological Quarterly

Medical anthropology, with its propensity to theoretise and problemise issues and refer endlessly to other work and concepts with which the reader will not be familiar, is for many outsiders almost as impenetrable as Japanese psychiatry. Putting the two together should be a recipe for disaster, but in Junko Kitanaka's hands, this book is instead a triumph, perhaps even a classic. -- David Healy, Times Higher Education

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Junko Kitanaka is an associate professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Keio University, Tokyo.

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