TAKASHIMA TALKS IN JAPANESE CULTURAL STUDIES: H. YUMI KIM ON MADNESS IN THE FAMILY

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022, 4:00 PM (PST)

HSSB 4080

Presented by UCSB’S East Asia Center

John Hopkins University professor H. Yumi Kim will speak about how family-based care intensified in Japan despite the introduction of psychiatry, as well as the challenges of writing such a history through a psychiatric archive. The talk explores an economy of caregiving that relied on women’s physical and mental labor.