Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological ViewHealth care in contemporary Japan a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non Western cultural tradition operates on several different levels. In this book Emiko Ohnuki Tierney provides a detailed and historically informed account of the cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan. In contrast to most ethnomedical studies, this book pays careful attention to everyday hygienic practices and beliefs, as