Dr. Aya Homei
Position in UKCHNM: Medical History Liaison Officer
Affiliations: Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Publications
HOMEI, A. (2002) Igirisu no samba no rekishi kara – samba to ‘otokosanba’ (Leaning from the History of English Midwives: From midwives to ‘man-midwives’. The Journal of Japanese Midwives’ Association. Vol. 56, No. 1. February, pp. 44-7
HOMEI, A. (2002) Tempos modernos, novos partos e novos parteiras: o parto no Japão de 1868 aos anos 1930 (Modern Time “New-Midwives”: History of Japanese Midwives, 1868-1930s). Journal of Feminist Studies. Vol. 10, No.2. pp.429-40
HOMEI, A. (2002) Seijōsan to eisei: kindai sanba wo meguru poritikkus (“Normal Birth” and “Modern Hygiene”: Politics surrounding modern midwife’s expertise). Japanese Journal of the History of Biology. Vol. 70, December, pp.1-16
FUJINAGA, S. HOMEI, A. IWASE M. (2004) Kyōkasho (Textbook of Social Sciences and Humanities for students at Miyakonojo National College of Technology). Kyoto, Heirakujishoten.
HOMEI, A. (2005) Sanba and Their Clients: Midwives and the Medicalization of Childbirth in Japan, in Barbara Mortimer and Susan McGann eds., New Directions in History of Nursing: International Perspectives, London, Routledge, pp. 68-85
In press
HOMEI, A. (2006) Birth Attendants in Meiji Japan: The Rise of the Biomedical Birth Model and A New Division of Labour. Social History of Medicine
HOMEI, A. The Development of Medical Mycology in the USA, the UK and Japan. Medical Mycology
Work in progress
I am in the process of completing a paper that discusses how the professionalisation and medicalisation of childbirth in Japan in the early twentieth century were linked up with the rising ‘new middle class’ consumer culture and consciousness to ‘scientific motherhood’. My latest research project involves the conceptualization of ‘germs’ in Japan and how it had an impact on the professionalism of midwives there.
Teaching
Race, Gender, Medicine at CHSTM
Supervision of undergraduate dissertations
Supervision of periodical SSC modules (at medical school)
Contact details
Work address
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
University of Manchester
Simon Building 2F
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
Work phone number
0161 275 5843
