IKEDA Mitsuho: Professor Emeritus, Osaka University, Japan.

My special interests are  Medical Anthoropology and Ethnographical Studies of Central America. Now I add one more, in Health Communication Studies.

I had worked as Deputy Direcetor and Director of the CSCD [the Center for the study of Communication/CO*- Design ] from 2015 to 2022.

Langueage( English, Spanish and Mam: one of Mayan Langueages in Central America)

My Curriculum Vitae, CV is linked in this line.

I was born on June 16, 1956 at the Osaka Kita Hospital (now closed) in Kita-ku, Osaka City. I used to be a professor at the CSCD [the Center for the study of Communication/CO*- Design ] (April 2005 - March 2022). I had worked as Deputy Direcetor and Director of the CSCD from 2015 to 2022. I also use nickname as Gennosuke Tarumi and/or Ichikawa Danjuro. Mitzub'ixi Quq Chi'j is my Mam name in both the Sierra Madre and the Cuchumatan highlands, Guatemala.

My academic areas are ethnography and medical anthropology of Central America. My main academic affiliations include the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, the American Anthropological Association, the Latin American Studies Association of Japan, and the Japanese Society of Health and Medical Sociology. I am currently living somewhere on earth as a cultural anthropologist.

I am the director of the Medical Anthropology Projects in Japan (MAP-J). I am still involved in the "Society for the Study of Medical Anthropology," the "Society for the Study of World Rehabilitation (formerly the Society for the Study of Field Power)," and the "Society for the Phenomenology of Clinical Practice.

Mitsuho Ikeda is professor emeritus at Osaka University. His fields of expertise include cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, and communication design. Her main publications include "Medical Anthropology in Practice: The Geopolitical Development of Medicine in the Central American Health Care System" (sole author), "Introduction to Nursing Anthropology" (sole author), Bunka Shobo Hakubunsha, and "The Creation of Dementia Care: Toward Nursing of the Personality" (editor), Unmo Shobo, Conflict and Migration: A New Research Project" (editor), Osaka University Press, "Ethnography of Animal Killing" (co-author), Shawado, "Human History from the Perspective of Dogs", Bensei Publishing Co. The Political Ethnography of Violence, Osaka University Press. etc.

This is my (presumed) research field according to MEXT.com (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)!

The pie chart on the left is for 2018 and the middle is for July 2019. The right one is for May 2022.