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Susumu Tokunaga

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Tokunaga Susumu

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1948-01-01 (Tottori Prefecture, Japan)
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Tottori Prefecture, Japan → Kyoto Prefecture, Japan (studies)

経歴

職業
Physician, Non-fiction writer
活動期間
1975年〜
所属
Tottori Red Cross Hospital (physician, internal medicine), No-no-hana Clinic (founder, hospice care)

学歴

Kyoto University
Faculty of Medicine / Department of Medicine
卒業年: 1973
国: Japan

受賞歴

Kodansha Non-Fiction Prize
1982
対象作品: A Smile Within Death
主催: Kodansha
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

A Smile Within Death

1982年 Non-fiction

A reportage drawing on encounters with death in clinical settings, highlighting terminal care and the humanity of patients.

end-of-life carehospicepatient dignity
映像化・舞台化
  • [TV drama] Love and the Dune Town (NHK Drama Ningen Moyō) (1983)

Isolation: The People of My Hometown Affected by Leprosy

1982年 Non-fiction

A reportage on the history of isolation and discrimination surrounding Hansen's disease and the lives of those displaced from their hometowns.

Hansen's diseasediscriminationsocial history

News from the Wildflower Hospice

2009年 Essays / Non-fiction

An essay collection chronicling daily life at the No-no-hana hospice clinic, portraying clinical practice through interactions with patients, families, and caregivers.

hospice careclinical everyday lifeviews on life and death

全著作

  • Isolation: The People of My Hometown Affected by Leprosy
  • A Smile Within Death
  • Rehearsal for Death
  • Winds in Clinical Practice
  • Nursing Theory in Spoken Language: Being Present at the Terminal
  • The Hospital Room: A Message to the Classroom
  • Family Without Form
  • Beyond the Medical Chart
  • Before the Wildflower Clinic
  • A Day at the Wildflower Clinic
  • People's Light: Beside Death
  • Growing Old Is Also Fine: Encounters in Clinical Practice
  • Is Dying Scary?
  • Home Visits Along the Country Road
  • Admission Guide to the Wildflower
  • Home Hospice Notes
  • Either Way: Clinics as a Habitat of Contradictory Words

翻案

  • NHK Drama Ningen Moyō 'Love and the Dune Town' (1983) — based on 'A Smile Within Death'

作風・主題

文体
reportage-style non-fictionclinical and observational descriptionclear, accessible prose
頻出モチーフ
boundaries between life and deathcare and empathycommunity and isolation

評価・遺産

A physician-writer who used clinical experience to communicate the realities of hospice and end-of-life care to the public, contributing to the spread of community medicine and palliative care.

大衆文化への影響

  • 'A Smile Within Death' was adapted into the NHK drama 'Love and the Dune Town'

豆知識

  • In 1982 he won the Kodansha Non-Fiction Prize for 'A Smile Within Death'.
  • In 2001 he founded the No-no-hana clinic with hospice care in Tottori City.