イグノーベル賞 公衆衛生部門 受賞者一覧
イグノーベル賞の公衆衛生部門では、2023年「排泄物を解析するスマートトイレ」、2014年「猫を飼うことが人の精神に危険かどうかの調査」、2013年「陰茎切断が多発した時期の外科的処置の記録」などを扱っています。
受賞研究
排泄物を解析するスマートトイレ
尿や便を自動で観察し、健康状態の手がかりにする装置の研究。
Seung-min Park, for inventing the Stanford Toilet, a device that uses a variety of technologies — including a urinalysis dipstick test strip, a computer vision system for defecation analysis, an anal-print sensor paired with an identification camera, and a telecommunications link — to monitor and quickly analyze the substances that humans excrete. REFERENCE: “A Mountable Toilet System for Personalized Health Monitoring via the Analysis of Excreta,” Seung-min Park, Daeyoun D. Won, Brian J. Lee, Diego Escobedo, Andre Esteva, Amin Aalipour, T. Jessie Ge, et al., Nature Biomedical Engineering, vol. 4, no. 6, 2020, pp. 624-635. <doi.org/10.1038/s41551-020-0534-9> REFERENCE: “Digital Biomarkers in Human Excreta,” Seung-min Park, T. Jessie Ge, Daeyoun D. Won, Jong Kyun Lee, and Joseph C. Liao, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 18, no. 8, 2021, pp. 521-522. <doi.org/10.1038/s41575-021-00462-0> REFERENCE: “Smart Toilets for Monitoring COVID-19 Surges: Passive Diagnostics and Public Health,” T. Jessie Ge, Carmel T. Chan, Brian J. Lee, Joseph C. Liao, and Seung-min Park, NPJ Digital Medicine, vol. 5, no. 1, 2022, article 39. <doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00582-0> REFERENCE: “Passive Monitoring by Smart Toilets for Precision Health,” T. Jessie Ge, Vasiliki Nataly Rahimzadeh, Kevin Mintz, Walter G. Park, Nicole Martinez-Martin, Joseph C. Liao, and Seung-min Park, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 15, no. 681, 2023, article eabk3489. <doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abk3489> WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Seung-min Park
- 受賞者
- Seung-min Park
猫を飼うことが人の精神に危険かどうかの調査
: Jaroslav Flegr, Jan Havlíček and Jitka Hanušova-Lindova, and to David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried, for investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat.
- 受賞者
- : Jaroslav Flegr, Jan Havlíček and Jitka Hanušova-Lindova, and to David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried
陰茎切断が多発した時期の外科的処置の記録
Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde, for the medical techniques described in their report “Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam” — techniques which they recommend, except in cases where the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck. [THAILAND]
- 受賞者
- Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal, and Henry Wilde
微生物はひげのある科学者に付着するという実験
Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA, for determining by experiment that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
- 受賞者
- Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA
緊急時に防護マスク2枚になるブラジャーの発明
Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.
- 受賞者
- Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA
落とした食べ物の「5秒ルール」の科学的検証
Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it’s safe to eat food that’s been dropped on the floor.
- 受賞者
- Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University
鼻をほじるのは思春期に一般的だという発見
Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, for their probing medical discovery that nose picking is a common activity among adolescents.
- 受賞者
- Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
グラスゴーで相次いだ便器の崩壊
Jonathan Wyatt, Gordon McNaughton, and William Tullett of Glasgow, for their alarming report, “The Collapse of Toilets in Glasgow.” [Published in the Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 38, 1993, p. 185.]
- 受賞者
- Jonathan Wyatt, Gordon McNaughton, and William Tullett of Glasgow
空気人形を介した淋病の感染例
Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway, for their cautionary medical report “Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll.”
- 受賞者
- Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway
濡れた下着が寒冷下の体温調節に与える影響
Martha Kold Bakkevig of Sintef Unimed in Trondheim, Norway, and Ruth Nielsen of the Technical University of Denmark, for their exhaustive study, “Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal Comfort in the Cold.”
- 受賞者
- Martha Kold Bakkevig of Sintef Unimed in Trondheim, Norway, and Ruth Nielsen of the Technical University of Denmark