FUKUSHI, Yuki
Elimination/Excretion, Health, and the Environment in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
What we now think of as something that should be discarded and disposed of has not been necessarily understood as such at different points in history and in different regions. Feces of humans and animals do not necessarily feel close to our lives now. Nonetheless, in the past those feces were to be sold and reused in East Asia.
In this lecture, I would like to consider the use of feces in East Asia, its forms, and its influences on health and the environment from a historical perspective.
[Instructor]
Professor Fukushi finished the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology. She serves as Researcher at the Contemporary China Research Base Office of the RIHN (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) Initiative for Chinese Environmental Issues. Her areas of specialty include Modern and Contemporary Chinese History and East Asian Social History of Medicine. Her publications include Modern Shanghai and Public Hygiene: Urban Social History of Epidemic Prevention (Ochanomizu Shobo, 2010) etc.
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