Waka HIROKAWA

I am a professor in history at Senshu University. My work is focused on community medicine and community responses to state policies in the 19th and the first half of the twentieth century Japan. I'm the author of Kindai Nihon no Hansen-byo Mondai to Chiiki Shakai (Modern Japan's Hansen's Disease Problem and Local Communities, 2011), and the co-translator of Ann Jannetta's Vaccinators (2007) into Japanese. I also study the archival science theory based on medical materials.

My research interests; Social History of Medicine, Medical History, Public Health History, History of Community Health, Medical Archives, Modernization of Medicine, Gender History, Hansen's disease(Leprosy), Syphilis, Smallpox and Vaccination.

Reconsidering the Segregation of Hansen’s Disease Patients in the Era of COVID-19 is a translated manuscript of  "Hansen byō 'Kakuri' towa nanika," Gendai Shisō, vol. 48 no.7 (2020),  originally written in Japanese.