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Japanese culture, science and society, and aging and health care. He organized the 2000 Cultural Construction of Dementia Conference in
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Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of tradition and modernity in practice
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Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and kinship in contemporary Japan
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Traphagan received his Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the
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The Practice of Concern: Ritual, well-being, and aging in rural Japan
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Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics
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Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society
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Science, Culture, and the Search for Life on Other Worlds
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The Blood of Gutoku: A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan
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543:"Jeanne Traphagan Obituary (2004) - Boston Globe"
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