He is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University.
Kuriyama has taught at the University of New Hampshire, Emory University (where he was the Chair for its Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA)) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.
[3] He authored The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (1999), a study of the different views of health and medicine held by the ancient Western civilization and Eastern civilizations.
[5] This book won the 2001 William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
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