insān shināsī afsurdigī: Persian 1400

Junko Kitanaka’s book richly deserves the superlatives that reviews other than this one will be sending in its direction. A fruitful combination of medical history, ethnography and sociology, Kitanaka guides us with an expert knowledge and lucid style through the complexities of Japanese depression as it is now and as it was in the past. Thus it stands to be of interest both to historians of medicine who work in early modern periods and those who are concerned with the present and how psychiatry moves forward in our own time.