Faculty

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NOJIMA Natsuko

Associate Professor

  • Department of Regional Cultural Policy and Management
  • Graduate School of Cultural Policy and Management
Research Keywords：
social exclusion, social sorting, illness narrative, "contested illness," "benefit scroungers"
Degrees Ph.D. (Human Sciences), Osaka University (2018)
M.A. (Human  and Environmental Studies), Kyoto University (2011)
B.A. (Human Sciences), Osaka University (2009)
B.A. (Letters), Mukogawa University (2006)
Selected Professional Experiences Associate Professor, Ishinomaki Senshu University (2021/4-2023/3)
Assistant Professor, Osaka University (2018/4-2021/3)
Research fellow (PD), JSPS (2016/4-2018/3) 
Research fellow (DC2), JSPS (2014/4-2016/3)
Research Fields Sociology of medicine, Welfare sociology
Major Publications
  • Shindan no Shakaigau: "Ronsouchu no Yamai" wo wazurau to Iukoto [Sociology of Diagnosis: Suffering from "Contested Illnesses"]. Tokyo: Keio University Press. 2021. (in Japanese)
  • "Naze Hito ha Byousya no Monogatari ni Kandou suru noka" [Why are people inspired by the stories of the sick?]. In YAMANAKA Hiroshi and ISHIKURA Fuminobu eds. Series Ningen Kagaku 5: Yamu [Series of Human Sciences: Be Ill]. Osaka: Osaka University Press. pp.157-177. 2020. (in Japanese)
  • "'Ronsou chu no Yamai' no Toujisha no Katari ni miru Kibou to Seibutsuigaku: Kintsuusei Nousekizuien/Mansei Hirou Shoukougun to Seni Kintsushou no Jirei kara" [Hope and Biomedicine in the Narratives of People with ‘Contested Illnesses’] Nenpou Kagaku, Gijyutsu, Shakai [Japanese Jounal of Sciecne, Technology and Society]. 27. pp.33-57. 2018. (in Japanese)
  • "Tankyu no Katari Saikou: Byouki wo 'Ukeireteinai' Senikintsuushou Kanjya no Katari wo tsuujite" ["The Quest Narrative" Reconsidered: An Analysis of the Narratives of Fibromyalgia Patients Who Do Not Accept Their Illnesses]. Shakaigaku Hyoron [Japanese Sociological Review]. 69(1). pp.88-106. 2018. (in Japanese)
  • "Shindan no Paradox: Kintsuusei Nousekizuien/Manseihirou Shoukougun oybi Senikintsuushou wo wazurau Hitobito ni okeru Shindan no Kouka to Genkai" [Paradox of Diagnosis: The Positive Effects and Limitations of Diagnosis in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM) Sufferers]. Hoken Iryo Shakaigaku Ronshu [The Japanese Journal of Health and Medical Sociology] . 27(2). pp.77-87. 2017. (in Japanese)
Academic Organizations The Japan Sociological Society
The Japanese Society of Health and Medical Sociology
Education