The Japanese Journal of Health and Medical Sociology
No. 32-1 [2021]
Predicting Illness: Technology and Predictive Medicine Preface to the Special Issue
………………………………………………… Setsuko SUGANO…… 1
Health Prediction Services Using Genomic Information: Challenges and Policy Implications
………………………………………………… Ryozo Matsuda…… 3
The Preemptive Medicine after the Advanced Medicine and Healthcare Services
………………………………………………… Kiyoshi Muraoka…… 14
Future World Seen from Self-tracking
………………………………………………… Tatsuya Mima…… 23
Prediction and Prevention of Hereditary Cancer: How Patients are Introduced in Genetic Testing
………………………………………………… Izen Ri…… 34
Patients’ Views on Screening Tests: From the Narratives of People Involved
in Two Tests
………………………………………………… Setsuko Sugano…… 45
Original Articles
Study on the Experience of Living with Multiple Long-term Diseases that Lack Subjective Symptoms
………………………………………………… Shiori Sakai Tomoko Hosono…… 55
Association between Social Activities and the Japan Science and Technology Agency Index of Competence (JST-IC) among Community-dwelling Older Adults
………………………………………………… Yachiyo Sasaki Midori Shirai…… 64
An Ethnomethodological Study of Training Sessions on Requesting Inter-hospital Patient Transfer: The Case of an Exercise in the Trauma and Critical Center
………………………………………………… Tatsuya Akutsu…… 74
The Development of a Qualification System for Physical Therapists in Japan: Analysis of Policy Process Using Issue-approach Model
………………………………………………… Ryo Mikami…… 85
Research Notes
“I Was Brought Up on the Island”: Life Story of a Nurse at the Hansen’s Disease Sanatorium
………………………………………………… Michiko Kadobayashi…… 96
Book Reviews
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