Radium traffic: Radiation, science and spiritualism in early twentieth-century Japan
Radium traffic: Radiation, science and spiritualism in early twentieth-century Japan
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镭交通：二十世纪初日本的辐射、科学和唯灵论
DOI：
10.1017/mdh.2020.47
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Maika Nakao
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作者：
Terada Saeko;Yobo Christian Mikolo;Moussavou Guy-Max;Matsuura Naoki;野本繭子・寺田佐恵子・松浦直毅;松浦直毅;Naoki Matsuura;Maika Nakao
在明治后期和大正时代（1900 - 1920年代），现代健康相关商品和旅游业的出现伴随着招魂宗教的复兴，其中许多宗教起源于民间信仰。人们对辐射的理解帮助了这一点。这篇文章强调了在现代化和帝国主义时期的日本，辐射、科学和唯心主义之间的联系。在世纪早期，公众开始了解辐射，因为它被认为对人体有特殊的疗效。在日本，辐射的概念与西方文化和日本传统文化相协调。从镭温泉和放射性商品的普及和普及，可以看到西方文化和传统文化在人们生活和商业文化中的融合。镭温泉于1910年代在日本流行起来。当学者们报告镭提供了温泉的真实的效能时，当地温泉村抓住科学解释，将其发展与国家政策和产业联系起来。本文阐述了近代日本放射医学领域中关于镭的论述如何将科学与灵性联系起来。
The emergence of modern health-related commodities and tourism in the late Meiji and Taishō eras (1900s–1920s) was accompanied by a revival of spiritualist religions, many of which had their origins in folk belief. What helped this was the people’s interpretation of radiation. This article underscores the linkages between radiation, science and spiritualism in Japan at the time of modernisation and imperialism. In the early twentieth century, the general public came to know about radiation because it was deemed to have special efficacy in healing the human body. In Japan, the concept of radiation harmonised with both Western culture and Japanese traditional culture. One can see the fusion of Western and traditional culture both in people’s lives and commercial culture through the popularity and availability of radium hot springs and radioactive commodities. Radium hot springs became fashionable in Japan in the 1910s. As scholars reported that radium provided the real potency of hot springs, local hot springs villages seized on the scientific explanation and connected their developments with national policies and industries. This paper illustrates how the discourse about radium, which came from the field of radiation medicine, connected science and spiritualism in modern Japan.