Alexander Bay, PhD, Stanford University 2006, is working on the history of beriberi in Japan from the 1700s to the postwar era. Future research projects include Cholera, Hansen’s disease and hemorrhoids (during the Meiji and Taisho periods. Working title: Modern Assholes.) Bay is currently teaching East Asian history at Chapman University in southern California.

Select PUBLICATIONS

“The Swift Horses of Nukanobu: Bridging the Frontiers of Medieval Japan,” (Chapter Three) JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life, ed. Brett Walker and Gregory Pflugfelder (Ann Harbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan Press, 2005).

“Takaki Kanehiro,” Dictionary of Medical Biography, ed. W.F and Helen Bynum (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2006).

“Choteki toshite no raibyo—Leprosy as Enemy of the State,” Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi Journal of the Japan Society of Medical History 51:2 (June, 2005): 232-33.

“Tokei to igakuteki na jijitsu: Takaki Kanehiro oyobi Kakkeron – Statistics and Medical Facts: Takaki Kanehiro and the Beriberi Debate,” Nihon Ishigaku Zasshi Journal of the Japan Society of Medical History 49:1 (March, 2003): 142-43.

TRANSLATIONS

Mayanagi Makoto, “Japan and Traditional Medicine in Modern China: The Impact of Japanese Medical Texts in the Period of Republican China.” Presented at the “Interweaving Medical Traditions: Europe and Asia, 1600-2000” conference. Wolfson College, Cambridge.

http://www.hum.ibaraki.ac.jp/mayanagi/paper02/Jp%20and%20TMC.html