Special Issue

Preface to the Special Issue
………………………………………………… Daigoro EBITA…… 1

Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Artefacts
………………………………………………… Kiyotaka NAOE…… 4

Sociology of Health Care and Actor-Network-Theory: Ethnography of Speech-Language Therapists Connecting Professional Knowledge and Ethics of Care
………………………………………………… Hirotaka ITO　Sayuri ITO…… 15

The Significance of Measuring Vital Signs in Psychiatric Home-Visit Nursing
………………………………………………… Emiko ISHIDA…… 26

Tools to Enable Performing Nursing Duties: From an Instrumental Analysis of the "Whiteboard" Used at the Staff Station
………………………………………………… Chikako TANIKAWA…… 37

The Sequence of Numbers on the Test Chart and the Choice of Tools: Connections of Objects Canceling the Concepts of Disability
………………………………………………… Daigoro EBITA…… 47

Original Articles

Composite Identities of Non-Cancer Patients With Professional Expertise Involved in Cancer Activism: Focusing on Ad Creators' Activities
………………………………………………… Asako SUGAMORI…… 57

Mental Hygiene Treatment at Regular Class and "Personality Abnormalities": The Conception of Shiro Takagi at the Dawn of Special Education
………………………………………………… Shinta FURUDONO…… 67

Book Reviews

………………………………………………… Tomoyuki SUZUKI…… 77

………………………………………………… Miwa SAKAI…… 79

………………………………………………… Takayuki YAHARA…… 81

………………………………………………… Bun'ya NAKAMURA…… 83

………………………………………………… Toyoko KOZAI…… 85

………………………………………………… Shu KINOSHITA…… 87