Article ID: CBB001214342

From the Laboratory to the Kitchen: The Oral History of Nutrition and Its Application to the History of Science (2012)

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Rie, Hogetsu (Author)


Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Volume: 22, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 125-141


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Social History of Medicine in Modern Japan”
Language: English

Eiyo-gaku, the science of nutrition, was first developed in early twentieth-century Japan through the endeavors of a scientist, Saiki Tadasu. Previous studies on the modern Japanese family have found that the new nutritional knowledge of the time, which was "rational" and "scientific," was transmitted to the housewives of the new middle class via the rise of the publishing industry. This paper aims to present the way in which the mothers of the new middle class in the early twentieth century applied the knowledge of nutrition in their everyday lives via retrospective interviews with their daughters. The article also considers the applicability of oral history to the history of science, by reviewing its methodological problems.

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Article Takayanagi, Hideko; Jannetta, Ann; Asami, Ryuji; Nakamura, Ellen; Abe, Osamu; Kitagawa, Hiroyuki; Miyajima, Toshihiro; Iryu, Yasufumi (2012) Translating Medical Knowledge: Japan's First Medical Journal---Taisei Meii Iko. Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan (pp. 68-87). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Merchant, Paul
Adamski, Jens
Moitra, Stefan
Brian Williams
Andrea Paula dos Santos Oliveira Kamensky
Weimin, Xiong
Concepts
Oral history
Historiography
History of science, as a discipline
Interviews
Historical method
Biographies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Prehistory
20th century, early
10th century
Places
China
Japan
Arizona (U.S.)
Germany
Korea
Brazil
Institutions
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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