Akihito Suzuki received his PhD from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1992. He has published numrous works on various aspects of history of medicine, particularly in psychiatry, in England and Japan. He is currently working mainly on history of psychiatry and public health in modern Japan.

Select Publications

· Madness at Home: the Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England 1820-1860 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)

· 『身体医文化論−感覚と欲望』（東京：慶應義塾大学出版会、2002）石塚久郎と共編

· “Lunacy and Labouring Men: Narratives of Male Vulnerability in Mid-Victorian London”, in John Pickstone and Roberta Bivins eds., Medicine, Madness and Social History (London: Palgrave, 2007), 118-128.

· “A Brain Hospital in Tokyo and Its Private and Public Patients, 1926-1945”, History of Psychiatry, 14(2003), 337-360.

· “Family, the State and the Insane in Japan 1900-1945” in Roy Porter and David Wright eds., Psychiatric Confinement in International Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 193-225.

· (With Clark Lawlor), “Disease of the Self: Representing Consumption, 1700-1830”, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 74(2000), 458-94.

· “Framing Psychiatric Subjectivity: Doctor, Patient, and Record-Keeping at Bethlem in the Nineteenth Century”, in Insanity, Institutions and Society: New Research in the Social History of Madness, eds. by Bill Forthyce and Joseph Melling (London: Routledge, 1999), 115-136.

· “Politics and Ideology of Non‑Restraint: the Case of the Hanwell Asylum”, Medical History, 39(1995), 1-17.

· 「近代日本におけるジフテリア統計の分析」『三田学会雑誌』97巻4号(2005年1月), 21-37.