A Medicated Empire : : The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan / / Timothy M. Yang.
In A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia's most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshi&...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (354 p.) :; 25 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- Part I. The Drug Industry, Entrepreneurship, and the State
- 1. A Strategic Industry
- 2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company
- Part II. Marketing Medicines and Medicinal Infrastructures
- 3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication
- 4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries
- Part III. The Opium Empire
- 5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception)
- 6. Things Fall Apart
- Part IV. Science, Self-Sufficiency, and Wartime Mobilization
- 7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency
- 8. War and Drugs
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Selected Titles