She was John Carroll University's
first Coordinator of East
Asian Studies, working with other faculty
and administrators to develop this international
program. The East Asian Studies program involves
regular and special courses, student exchange,
extracurricular lectures and concerts, hosting
conferences and workshops, and working with schools
and museums in the area to improve education about
East Asia. Dr. Long served as project director
of a federally funded program to increase the
number of licensed Japanese language teachers
in area high schools.
Dr. Long has been actively conducting
research on Japanese women, family, care of the
elderly, medical systems, and bioethics and end-of-life
decision-making. She has published numerous articles
and book chapters.
Publications and Major Research:
Monographs
2005 Final
Days: Japanese Culture and Choice at the End of
Life. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press.
1987 Family
Change and the Life Course in Japan.
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University East Asian
Papers, No. 44.
Edited Volumes
2000 Caring
for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices
and Policies. London: Routledge.
1999 Lives in
Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community
in Japan. Ithaca, New York: Cornell
East Asia Series.
1993 Silences and
Voices: The Writings of Endo Shusaku.
Journal of the Association of Teachers of
Japanese 27(1). Long, Susan Orpett and
Daniel Weisberg. eds.
1984 Biomedicine
in Asia: Transformations and Variations.
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 8.
Book Chapters
2005 Constrained Person
and Creative Agent: A Dying Student’s
Narrative of Self and Others. In
Companion to the Anthropology of Japan.
Jennifer Robertson, ed. Pp. 380-399. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers. Long, Susan Orpett and
C. Scott Littleton.
2003 Demographic and
Family Change: Problems and Solutions.
In Demographic Change and the Family in Japan’s
Aging Society. John W. Traphagan and John
Knight, eds. Pp. 229-236. Albany: SUNY Press.
Long, Susan Orpett and Noriko Iwai.
2002 Anrakushi no
Hoseika (The Legalization of Euthanasia).
In Nihonjin no Sugata: JGSS ni miru Ishiki
to Kodo (The Japanese: Attitudes and Behaviors
as seen in the Japanese General Social Survey).
Noriko Iwai and Hiroki Sato, eds. Pp. 300-306.
Tokyo: Yûhikaku.
2000 Introduction.
In Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the
US: Practices and Policies. Pp. 1-16. London:
Routledge. Long, Susan Orpett and Satoshi Chihara.
2000 Difficult Choices:
Policy and Meaning in Japanese Hospice Practice.
In Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the
US: Practices and Policies. Susan Orpett
Long, ed. Pp 146-171. London: Routledge. Long,
Susan Orpett and Phyllis Braudy Harris.
2000 Recognizing the
Need for Gender-Responsive Family Caregiving
Policy. In Caring for the Elderly
in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies.
Susan Orpett Long, ed. Pp. 248-272. London:
Routledge.Long, Susan Orpett and Scott Clark.
1999 Introduction.
In Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of
Self and Community in Japan. Susan Orpett
Long, ed. Pp 1-7. Ithaca, New York: Cornell
East Asia Series.
1999 Shikata ga nai:
Resignation, Control, and Self-Identity in Japan.
In Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of
Self and Community in Japan. Pp. 11-25.
Ithaca, New York: Cornell East Asia Series.
1998 Becoming a Master
Physician. In Learning in Likely
Places. John Singleton, ed. Pp 172-189.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Long,
Susan Orpett, and Phyllia Braudy Harris.
1997 Caring for the
Bedridden Elderly: Ideals, Reality, and Social
Change in Japan. In Aging: Asian
Concepts and Experiences Past and Present.
Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart, eds. Pp 347-368
Vienna: Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
1996 Nurturing and
Femininity: The Impact of the Ideal of Caregiving
in Postwar Japan. In Re-Imaging
Japanese Women. Anne Imamura, ed. Pp 156-176.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
1992 The Management
of Mrs. Suzuki's Miscarriage: Communication
and Social Relationships in Japan. In
Case Studies in Health Communication. Eileen
Berlin Ray, ed. Pp 209-222. New York: Erlbaum.
1992 Society and Its
Environment. In Japan: A Country
Study, 5th ed. Pp 69-128. Washington, D.C.:
Library of Congress.
1987 Health Care Providers:
Technology, Policy, and Professional Dominance.
In Health and Illness in Japan.
Margaret Lock and Edward Norbeck, eds. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press.
1983 Intertwined Careers
and Medical Practice Styles. In
Work and Lifecourse in Japan. David W.
Plath, ed. Pp 100-115. Albany: SUNY Press.
Journal Articles
2006 ZUnderstanding
the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(CAM) in Japanese Primary Care:
A Qualitative Study. Puraimari Kea (Japanese
Journal of Primary Care) 29(1):15-21. (Tsuruoka,
Yuko, Koki Tsuruoka, Susan O. Long, and Eiji
Kajii)
2004 Cultural Scripts
for a Good Death in Japan and the United States:
Similarities and Differences. Social
Science and Medicine 58(5): 913-928.
2003 Becoming a Cucumber:
Culture, Nature, and the Good Death in Japan
and the United States. Journal
of Japanese Studies 29(1): 33-68.
2002 Seventh Annual
Fall Fellowship in Korean Studies: Program Evaluation.
Korea Society Quarterly 3 (2-3): 47-48,
Summer/Fall.
2002 Life is More
than a Survey: Understanding Attitudes toward
Euthanasia in Japan. Theoretical
Medicine and Bioethics 23(4-5): 305-319.
2001 Negotiating the
A Good Death: Japanese Ambivalence about New
Ways to Die. Ethnology 40(4): 271-289.
2001 Ancestors, Computers,
and Other Mixed Messages: Ambiguity and Euthanasia
in Japan. Cambridge Quarterly for
Healthcare Ethics 10(1): 62-71.
2000 Living Poorly
or Dying Well: Decisions about Life Support
and Treatment Termination for American and Japanese
Patients. Journal of Clinical Ethics
11(3): 236-250.
2000 Public Passages,
Personal Passages, and Reluctant Passages: Notes
on Investigating Cancer Disclosure Practices
in Japan. Journal of Medical Humanities
21(1): 3-13. Long, Susan Orpett, and Phyllis
Braudy Harris.
2000 Gender and Elder
Care: Social Change and the Role of the Caregiver
in Japan. Social Science Japan
Journal 3(1): 21-36.
1999 Family Surrogacy
and Cancer Disclosure in Japan. Journal
of Palliative Care 15(3): 31-42. Long, Susan
Orpett, and Phyllis Braudy Harris.
1999 Husbands and
Sons in the United States and Japan: Cultural
Expectations and Caregiving Experiences.
Journal of Aging Studies 13 (3): 241-267.
Long, Susan Orpett, Phyllis Braudy Harris, and
Miwa Fujii.
1998 Men and Elder
Care in Japan: A Ripple of Change?
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 13:
177-198.
1998 The Mirror of
Japan: Aging Citizens, Aging Societies.
The Gerontologist 38(3): 391-394.
1997 Risoteki na Kaigo
to wa? Amerika kara mita Nihon to Rinen to Genjitsu
(What is Ideal Caregiving? Japanese Ideals and
Reality From an American’s Perspective).
Hosupisu to Zaitaku Kea (Hospice Care and
Home Care) 5(1): 37-43. Long, Susan Orpett
and Jacquelyn Slomka.
1994 Cultural Values
and the Use of Advance Directives.
BENO (Bioethics Network of Ohio) Newsletter
3(1): 2-6. Long, Susan Orpett, Robert Bloom,
and Marilynn Collins.
1994 Japanese
and American Accounting: Explaining the Differences.
Advances in International Accounting 6: 265-284.
Long, Susan Orpett and Phyllis Braudy Harris.
1993 Daughter-in-Law's
Burden: Family Caregiving and Social Change
in Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural
Gerontology 8: 97-118. Long, Susan Orpett
and Phyllis Braudy Harris.
1993 Festival for
a Cause: Participant Mobilization in a Japanese
Social Movement. Sociological Focus
26(1): 47-63.
1993 Introduction
to Silences and Voices: The Writings of Endo
Shusaku. Journal of the Association
of Teachers of Japanese 27(1): 57-59.
1991 Matsuri: Festivals
in Contemporary Japan. Explorer
33(3):12-13, Fall.
1986 Roles, Careers and
Femininity: Women Physicians and Nurses in Japan.
Social Science and Medicine 22: 81-90.
Long, Susan Orpett and Daniel Weisberg.
1984 The Sociocultural
Context of Nursing in Japan. Culture,
Medicine, and Psychiatry 8: 142-164.
1984 Introduction
to Biomedicine in Asia: Transformations and
Variations. Culture, Medicine,
and Psychiatry 8: 117-130. Long, Susan
Orpett, Richard Fuller, and Harold Roth
1983 Compliance With
Disulfiram Treatment of Alcoholism. Journal
of Chronic Disease 36:161-170.
Long, Susan Orpett, and Bruce
D. Long
1982 Curable Cancers
and Fatal Ulcers: Attitudes Toward Cancer in
Japan. Social Science and Medicine
16(24):2101-2108.
1980 The Ins and Outs
of Doctor-Patient Relations in Japan.
American Journal of Chinese Medicine 8(1):
37-46.
1971 Translation of
Akutagawa Ryunosuke's "The Seashore."
Voices 3: 39-44, Spring.
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Susan
Orpett Long specializes in anthropology and East Asian
Studies. She did her undergraduate work at the University
of Michigan and received her MA and PhD in anthropology
at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She became
interested in Japan when she was sent there as an AFS
exchange student in high school, knowing little more than
how to count to ten and say "sayonara." The
intensive experience of a year in such a historically
rich culture stimulated her interest in anthropology and
encouraged her to continue her study of Japanese language
and society.