著者

森 忠重

出版者

日本医学哲学・倫理学会

雑誌

医学哲学 医学倫理 (ISSN:02896427)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.25-45, 1992-10-23 (Released:2018-02-01)

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The role of personalized treatment has always posed problems in considerations of Japanese medical history. Japanese medical treatments in medieval times were inextricably related to Buddhistic and ethnologic factors, just as European medical treatments were to Christian factors. To be more exact, Japanese medicine was almost totally influenced by Buddhism. The problems, however, exist in determining why medical treatments became Buddhistic or ethnologic, and how they became personalized. Wherever ideological paradigms were corrupted, naturalistic medical treatment would supplant the then existing personalized treatments. In this thesis, such replacement processes are traced back and considered in terms of the exorcisms and maledictions performed in esoteric Buddhism, relief measures taken for leprous patients, clinical examinations of the death of human beings, and in sensitivity to death in literary and religious terms.