In the history of medicine, Kyusaku Ogino is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Kyusaku Ogino as Japanese doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.
Kyusaku Ogino was born at Toyohashi in 1882. His recorded nationality is Japan. He trained at University of Tokyo.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
His posts were held at University of Tokyo and Niigata University.
The recorded fields of work are gynaecology, medicine and obstetrics.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class and Medal with Purple Ribbon (1958).
That the work was done from Japan matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Kyusaku Ogino died in 1975, aged 93. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class
- Medal with Purple Ribbon — 1958
- Held posts at University of Tokyo and Niigata University
- Fields: gynaecology, medicine and obstetrics
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