Shigehisa Kuriyama

Shigehisa Kuriyama (栗山茂久 Kuriyama Shigehisa) (born in Marugame, Japan)[1] is a Japanologist and historian of medicine, the Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University.[2][3]

Kuriyama studied at Phillips Exeter Academy,[1] and then Harvard, receiving an A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. He then moved to Harvard's Department of the History of Science, which awarded him a Ph.D. in 1986. He joined the Harvard faculty as Reischauer Professor in 2005, after previously working at the University of New Hampshire, Emory University, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.[3]

He is the author of the book The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (1999), a study of the different views of health and medicine held by the ancient western and eastern civilizations.[4] This book was the 2001 winner of the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.[5] In 2013 he delivered the Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures, "What Truly Matters."

References

  1. 1 2 Faculty profile, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, retrieved 2014-01-14.
  2. ↑ Faculty profile, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, retrieved 2014-01-14.
  3. 1 2 Bradt, Steve (April 21, 2005), "Japanologist brings broad perspective: Kuriyama named Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History", Harvard University Gazette.
  4. ↑ Powell, Alvin (March 23, 2006), "Kuriyama examines body and culture", Harvard University Gazette.
  5. ↑ Past William H. Welch Medalists, American Association for the History of Medicine, retrieved 2010-05-08.
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