Japan's Shifting Status in the World and the Development of Japan's Medical Insurance Systems

• Main Author: Sugita, Yoneyuki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social medicine.; Ethnology.; Medicine-History.; Medical Sociology.; Cultural Anthropology.; History of Medicine.

This book explains the origins and early developments of Japanese medical insurance systems from the 1920s to the 1950s. It closely examines the changes in the systems and the symbiotic relationship between Japan's status in international relations and the development of domestic medical insura...