Akihito Suzuki was born in 1963 in Shizuoka, Japan. He received a BA (1986) and an MPhil (1988) from the University of Tokyo. He studied the history of medicine in London and received a PhD in 1992. After completing a few postdoctoral positions in England, Scotland, and Tokyo, he began teaching at Keio University in 1997. Since 2021, he has been teaching the history of medicine at the University of Tokyo. His speciality is the history of psychiatry and infectious diseases in Europe and Japan. He published Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, and the Family in England (2006) and Reforming Public Health in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 (2012, co-authored with Chris Aldous). He was awarded the Gijuku Prize at Keio University (2007) and the Carlson Award at the Cornell Medical School (2014).
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Akihito Suzuki
University of Tokyo